#kill

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#forbidden #kill #large #large numbers #numbers

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#head #killers #last #last summer #massachusetts

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#again #alive #another #back #brings

I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy. ↗

— Henry Wade

#beyond #certainty #doubt #i #kennedy

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#always #answer #ask #being #i

I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that. ↗

— Scott Walker

#any #anything #before #future #i

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#cosmos #either #else #god #kill

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped. ↗

— Stand Watie

#before #could #felt #fields #friendly

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#baseball #chance #clock #damn #few

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. ↗

— Simone Weil

#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier