#killed

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#drinking #food #gave #healthy #himself

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#carry #color #deeply #every #everything

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#come #completely #either #had #i

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#amin #because #death #entire #feared

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#capture #centered #false #false sense #find

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#burned #family #family members #get #got

You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#area #back #been #being #burned

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#any #described #dramatic #i #i write

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy. ↗

— Joe Valachi

#guy #i #imagine #killed #wrong

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