Kills Quotes

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Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's… — Marlon Riggs
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with… — Soren Kierkegaard
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. — John Milton
What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours,… — P. W. Singer
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea — Arthur Frederick Saunders
Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion — Guy Finley
Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. — Mark Twain
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. — Osbert Sitwell
Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people. — Richard M. Weiner
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence… — Saint Augustine
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...… — Thomas Aquinas
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a… — Miguel de Cervantes
Analysis kills spontaneity. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the… — P.J. O'Rourke
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. — Thomas Jefferson
Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures. — Eugene H. Peterson
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give… — Anthony Quinn
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. — Giacomo Casanova

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