Quote by Richard Dawkins

“His polytheistic hankerings were dramatically demonstrated in 1981 when he suffered an assassination attempt in Rome, and attributed his survival to intervention by Our…

— Richard Dawkins

“So why aren’t you dead?” The shooter was incredulous: “I know I was aiming right. I know that the bullet was a killer. So…

— Paul Kengor

Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.

— Frederick Lenz

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

— Leo Tolstoy

“All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had…

— William Trevor

“When I met him, he hadn't eaten for days, and lived in a rathole. But his rifle was clean and he had lots of…

— Anonymous

“...symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated…

— Joseph Heller

“O where does he stalk like a horse in pastures very far afield? I cannot hear him, and silence writes more terrible things than…

— Elizabeth Smart

“I need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-table?' For although images…

— Peter Ackroyd

“He was drafted early in the fall, and the examining doctor made no mention of low blood-pressure. It was all very purposeless and sad…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My martyrdom is not the selfless kind. I can't look at Filippa, shamed by all the injuries I've inflicted- like a man with a…

— M.L. Rio

“She had found Rasputin to be an odd, intense man. He had been undeniably human and very likely insane, but anyone who could survive…

— Thea Harrison