Quotes with comfort-killing

Quotes 81 till 100 of 156.

  • John Lennon Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Ben Stein Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Jean Cocteau Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Giambattista Vico Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Dion Boucicault Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
    Dion Boucicault
    Irish actor and dramatist (1822 - 1890)
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  • Charles Dickens Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Charles Dickens Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Pat Barker Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
    Weg der geesten (1996) 30
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Lord George Byron My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Buffalo Bill My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
    Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Jane Welsh Carlyle Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
    Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Scottish writer (1801 - 1866)
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  • Leigh Hunt Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Abdul Kalam No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • William Shakespeare Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand One does not learn how to die by killing others.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Bridget Hall Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
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  • Albert Camus Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bertrand Russell Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
    Has Man a Future? (1962)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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