Slaying Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.
— J Mascis
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Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.
— Lucian
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THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.
— Laozi
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Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.
— Darryl Worley
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
— Thomas Huxley
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the…
— A. N. Wilson
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Help means ruin and saving means slaying.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of…
— Ted Dekker
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Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it…
— George MacDonald
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.
— Michael Moorcock
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Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?
— Cassandra Clare
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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Slaying Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 33 Slaying Quotes, led by these top contributors: