Deadly Quotes

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Love, Self, Absence

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

Education, Long, Run

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

Hit, Violent, Armed

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu

Live, Victory, Able

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

Today, True, Struggle

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce

Beautiful, Two, English

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Dave Mustaine

Fun, Help, Envy

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education, Seriously, Taking

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling

Female, Male, Species

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler

Religion, Family, Health

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Richard M. Nixon

War, Working, Fighting

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Stephen King

Nature, Fear, Live

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

War, Country, Against

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton

Mother, Sins, Beware

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran

Born, Disease, Wound

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
Arlen Specter

Heart, Far, Behind

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Doug Coupland

Ten, Conflict, Seven

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
Helen Rowland

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.
Mark Udall

Understand, Treat, Used

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Francis Schaeffer

Long, Run, Poison

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mind, Both, System

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod

Marriage, Age, Women

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Charles Krauthammer

Enemy, Violence, Themselves

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
Ice T

Happen, Serious, Won

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mind, Long, Human

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert Menzies

History, Character, Greatest

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
Joseph Epstein

Fun, Envy, Seven

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Friendship, Hatred, Fruit

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot

History, Whole, Afterwards

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Allyson Schwartz

Society, Help, Young

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