Slaying Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

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
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor
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
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
I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool. — J Mascis
Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment. — Lucian
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
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. — Laozi
Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won. — Darryl Worley
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
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
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
Help means ruin and saving means slaying. — J.R.R. Tolkien
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
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
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
Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack. — Michael Moorcock
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
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying! — Wendelin Van Draanen
Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep. — Rick Riordan

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