Death Blow Quotes

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet. — Katherine Anne Porter

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob
perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life's every moment caught one out in one form or another. — Paul Russell

simplify" and standardize the information flows. — Debbie Troklus

The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release. — Sabaa Tahir

Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie. — Ilona Andrews

A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field? — Ernest Cline

When you go outside, you become the food. — Cameron Ahonpaa

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death ... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over. — Paul Weller

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun. — Emily Dickinson

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates? — J.D. Robb

I marked a map for every death
For every ache and blow
My world was all a page of black
With nothing left but snow. — Ally Condie

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. — Ely Culbertson

Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream. — Marco Rubio

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky. — Anthony Kiedis

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams

The death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that. — Brenda Ueland

Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over. — Robert Ferrigno

When you depart I'll blow you a Kiss take it to the Loved ones I already Miss. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. — Barbara Kingsolver

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. — Vladimir Lenin

If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death! — William Shakespeare

Longing for Death
Down into the womb of the earth,
Out of the kingdom of light,
Anger, pain, and a savage blow
Signal the happy departure. — Novalis

If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death. — Aldous Huxley

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. — Louis Kronenberger

Ah, yes. 'And I'll huff. And I'll puff. And I'll blow your house down.' Good-bye, wizard." Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells. — Jim Butcher

Honor without power was a useless decoration and power without honor was the simple flexing of muscle — H.J. Brues

I found the strength to see her, to cheer her, to not look away. It was taking a toll, but it was a toll I willingly paid. — David Levithan

Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. — Giacomo Casanova

Without the ability to discern, we stand impotent in an age of information overload. — Anonymous

What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him? He stands in his high house that overlooks the world. — Zora Neale Hurston

Change is fearsome, but stagnation is lethal. — Debasish Mridha