Attempted Murder Quotes

#1. I just had his hand in a vise," I protested indignantly. "It wasn't like I had a dagger in his ribs. 'Hand in a vise' is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. 'Dagger in the ribs' is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference.

Lisa Shearin

#2. I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

Matt Groening

#3. She tried to kill us, Keane."
"You can't take attempted murder personally in this business, Fowler.

Robert Kroese

#4. You know how women can be. One little attempted murder and they're on to the next guy.

Lexi Blake

#5. The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

Barry White

#6. That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you

Keri Arthur

#7. Mark responds to Peter's accusation with an uncharacteristically abrupt burst of anger and tries to throw Peter off the roof. Then Mark immediately apologizes to Peter for trying to kill him, and Peter lets it slide. It's probably the most swiftly forgiven attempted murder in the history of film.

Greg Sestero

#8. Nothing like an attempted murder to feel close to someone, right?
-Puck, Iron Fey Series

Julie Kagawa

#9. You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch

Michael Connelly

#10. Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

Burt Prelutsky

#11. They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

Nick Yapp

#12. Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder .

Ilana Mercer

#13. Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.

David Nasaw

#14. I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.

Eleanor Smeal

#15. Self-assertion more often than not is vulgar, but a live and vulgar dog who keeps on barking is better than a dead lion, however dignified.

Louis MacNeice

#16. Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#17. Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

David Lodge

#18. But she's a nice lass."
"Addolgar, she poisoned you."
"But she didn't kill me. That's what's important.

G.A. Aiken

#19. I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

Oliver Sacks

#20. Although I've been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment ... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.

Dimitrije Tucovic

#22. What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me.

Frank Grillo

#23. If you have a book, you have a friend.

Frank Delaney

#24. You can hate me, but why knock my hustle? I'ma be the queen no matter how they shuffle.

Nicki Minaj

#25. So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.

Jung Chang