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  • Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

    Fighting   Slaying   Foe  
    Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”
  • A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

    Writing   Men   Dragons  
    "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56". Book edited by James Beasley Simpson, 1957.
  • Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.

    Progress   Exit   Demon  
    Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • 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?

    Mom   Sorry   Darkness  
    "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 27, 2007.
  • I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

    Song   Joy   Departed  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.

    "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.
  • 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 against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

    Men   Animal   Fire  
    Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi
  • Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

  • Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY!

    Fun   Dragons   Games  
  • 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 the voice of peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor.

    Art   Fighting   Voice  
    Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.53, Shambhala Publications
  • The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair. He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing. Just sat.

    Warrior   Boys   Lakes  
  • Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

    Country   War   Men  
  • I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.

  • Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

    Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.14, Del Rey
  • Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

    Athenaeum magazine, p. 498, April 13, 1861.
  • 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 had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

    Art   Opportunity   Men  
  • 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 slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

  • 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 basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  • Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

    Mean   Saving   Ruins  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.565, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

    "Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead vs. J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr". Interview with Norman Reedus, www.undertheradarmag.com. May 28, 2014.
  • Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.

    Brother   Father   Son  
  • 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 difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.111, University of Georgia Press
  • Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.

  • Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

    John Chrysostom (2010). “Discourses Against Judaizing Christians (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)”, p.26, CUA Press
  • 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 acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.

    Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.736, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

    And Love   Want   Eowyn  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.943, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

    Men   Different   Lions  
  • You’re so hilarious. You know, if this whole Daimon-slaying gig doesn’t work out for you, you should really consider being a comedian. The bright Barney hair color would just add to the overall entertainment factor.

    Hair   Color   Work Out  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.62, Macmillan
  • How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don’t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun’s wrath. Back in the day when Ra was active, she would have been much more impressive, but still. .She’s unstoppable. A born killer. A slaying machine— “Okay, I get it!” I yelled.

    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
  • The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

    "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)
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