Quotes About Slaying

#1. Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.

Connie Eble

#2. This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

Kehinde Wiley

#3. It's not about slaying monsters," he told her. "Not these days. I think it's about learning to live with them. Anyway who says we're the good guys?" "I

Robert Dunbar

#4. Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.

Darryl Worley

#5. Brothers and sisters no genuine change can ever take place in a generation or epoch without first slaying the dragon of religion.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Yes I am aware of the rules.
Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.
Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.
That gives my soul its melodies.

Malebo Sephodi

#7. His hands had been reddened, like all men's hands, in the slaying before the foundation of the world.

C.S. Lewis

#8. I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

Georgette Heyer

#9. slaying everything within reach in order to quiet the monster that gnaws at their vitals.

Henry Miller

#10. I get the blues for him, for me, for all of us: for want of something to do we keep slaying our small dragons as the big one waits.

Charles Bukowski

#11. 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?

Cassandra Clare

#12. Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

George MacDonald

#13. It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit ... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

Olaf Stapledon

#14. 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.

Morihei Ueshiba

#15. It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

Wendelin Van Draanen

#16. This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.

Tai

#17. It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

Jennifer Weiner

#18. Questing is hard. Fortunately, Thomas is here to spoon-feed them answers. We're one step away from him giving them an instruction sheet by Ikea, with cartoonish diagrams and a little goddess-slaying allen wrench.

Jim C. Hines

#19. If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to ride up this infernal mountainside."
~ Grace Madison, PhD.

N.L.B. Horton

#20. 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?

Marie Corelli

#21. There is a piece of you that is still fighting this and I want to add a spark to that little ember and help you create a roaring fire of depression slaying badassery. You may feel numb and zombie-like, but you have not given up. We are still in this, friend. Let's get you back on track. In

Robert Duff

#22. The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#23. We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.

Russ Thorne

#24. Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open.
"Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.

Rick Riordan

#25. Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it.

Victor Hugo

#26. Take charge of your thoughts; for either it's slaying you or serving you

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#27. Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Thomas Huxley

#28. 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!

Michael J. Sullivan

#29. To Moses We gave the Book and sent a succession of messengers after him. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear signs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit. But, whenever a messenger came to you with something which you did not desire, you grew arrogant, calling some liars and slaying others.

Anonymous

#30. In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.

Kit Carson

#31. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

Lao-Tzu

#33. Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.

Frederick Lenz

#34. We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

Martin Luther

#35. Is Buffy the Vampire Slayer her personal savior?
Because that would bum you out?
The slaying part would, yeah. Not the Joss part. We all love Joss.

Chloe Neill

#36. 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.

Jorge Luis Borges

#37. Dumping the tent onto the ground, I studied it fiercely.
All right, I can do this. How hard can it be, really?
Kneeling, I picked up a long metal spike, frowning.
What in the world? Are you supposed to stab someone with these? Do tents come with vampire-slaying kits?

Julie Kagawa

#38. Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

H.W. Brands

#39. Some days, it's not about passion and courage. It's not about heroism and drama. It's not about slaying dragons or conjuring exotic visions... Some days, it's simply about the delicious act of doing simple things, simply.

Jack Ricchiuto

#40. There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Aesop

#41. Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

David Beckham

#42. In the conventional storyline, I'm supposed to be the one slaying dragons to save you, the princess in distress. So, you see, I feel odd being the rescued.

E. Journey

#43. My phone dings with a text. Mom: I bought you a rape whistle. There was a gangland slaying on your street last week.

Kristan Higgins

#44. Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#45. I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.

George R R Martin

#46. I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

J Mascis

#47. 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.

Nicolas Chamfort

#48. Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows.

Leo Tolstoy

#49. I think you were doing quite well until you got to the bit about slaying polar bears. Be that as it may, little shop-boy and farm-boy, I shall not kiss you; neither shall I marry you.

Neil Gaiman

#50. Oh, sure. Let me just ask my geek brother to stop slaying zombie ninjas for a few hours so I can borrow the PC and catch up on my Victorian horror lit.

Kelly Creagh

#51. 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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#52. Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#53. Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.

Cassandra Clare

#54. Julie Chen. She's my ultimate celebrity idol. I think she's one of the most amazing interviewers and hosts ever - and would kill to pick her brain. 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.

Tyler Oakley

#55. 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.

A. N. Wilson

#56. Kindly confirm: If someone's evil, then killing them isn't murder. It's SLAYING, and not only legal but encouraged. Correct?

Laini Taylor

#57. 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

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

Brian Jacques

#59. Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Lucian

#60. Sarah felt about great sex the way St. George felt about slaying dragons ...

Magnus Flyte

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

Michael Moorcock

#62. A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

W. H. Auden

#63. Well, I have to say it's mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them. It's much better than slaying an Arcadian. (He held his hands up to them.) Look, Ma, no mess. (Fang)
Does Fang have an off switch? (Talon)
(Looking a bit apologetic, Vane shook his head no.)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#64. 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.

Saint John Chrysostom

#65. There was a time for slaying dragons, and a time for holding on to someone and making the terror go away.

Jennifer Ashley

#66. 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.

Michael Grant

#67. When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity.

Sakyong Mipham

#68. His hands had been reddened, as all men's hands have been, in the slaying before the foundation of the world; now, if he chose, he would dip them again in the same blood. 'Mercy,' he groaned ...

C.S. Lewis

#69. though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days. So

J.R.R. Tolkien

#70. You can do things.
Do you know this?
Do you believe it?
You should.
It's true.
You can do great things.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#71. Look down the road I'm traveling and you will see my goal; it's there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#72. Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#73. You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#74. A smile is a light that sets your inner self aglow, letting others know you're home.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#75. The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.

Margaret Hodges

#76. Suicide is nothing, but an act of depriving the soul from it's very right to liberation.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#77. Never judge another knight without first knowing the strength and cunning of the dragons he fights.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#78. To believe in yourself is to light a spark with the potential to start a fire.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#79. Habits grow like dragons if you feed them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#80. There are trials in life that feel as tremendous as a quest to slay dragons. These trials are daunting. They require hard work, determination, and courage. But when the dragon is finally slain, the relief is immense.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#81. I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#82. Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#83. Everything in the world that happens to you may be someone else's doing; I'll grant you that. But what you do with it, how you react to it, what you make of yourself in the midst of it all - that's totally you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#84. It's not a dream, it's my destiny.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#85. Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#86. Dragons are a manifestation of things we fear. More often than not, those fears prove to be just as daunting and just as imaginary.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#87. Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.

Richelle E. Goodrich