Maim Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
— Jeph Jacques
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At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path,…
— Carolyn Hart
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To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd…
— John Wyndham
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Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended.…
— Kofi Annan
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The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.…
— Jimmy Carter
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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and…
— Harry S. Truman
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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
— Oscar Wilde
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A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when…
— John Steinbeck
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In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.
— Lawrence Taylor
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Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the…
— Kofi Annan
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If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and…
— Nancy Gibbs
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Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy…
— Wayne D. Dosick
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We have found ways . . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell . . .…
— David
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Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
— David Wilkerson
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by…
— Stephen Crane
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Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients?"
 "Let me think about that for a nanosecond," Dickie said. "Yes! Last time…
— Janet Evanovich
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Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has…
— Marc Bekoff
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It’s one thing to protect yourself,†Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. “That I get. Have I ever told you not to…
— Meg Cabot
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Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be…
— Darynda Jones
Who Wrote These Maim Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 28 Maim Quotes, led by these top contributors: