To Snuff Quotes

#1. The chase was the best part, Hunting was intoxicating. And knowing I had the power to snuff out Nila Weaver's life the moment I caught her gave me a certain ... thrill.

Pepper Winters

#2. Some people will try their best to snuff out the candle of hope inside of you. Don't let them!

Jose N. Harris

#3. Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

Julian Assange

#4. Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

Anthony Burgess

#5. I may believe I'm not up to snuff, but Jill? Jill thinks I can date the Great Gatsby.

Liza Palmer

#6. My cape caught fire. I dived to the sand and rolled on the ground to snuff the flames. So much for my grand entrance.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Marian Wright Edelman

#8. Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives.

Paullina Simons

#9. You are the light. The darkness will always try to snuff you out.

William Kent Krueger

#10. We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Robin Hobb

#11. Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

Alvin Ailey

#12. The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#13. To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#14. When you've got nothing left inside of you except for darkness, it becomes easier to snuff out somebody else's light.

J.M. Darhower

#15. Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

Dean Koontz

#16. Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

Fannie Flagg

#17. Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#18. If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.

Ben Affleck

#19. Silencer, was as good as any. It described his purpose: to snuff out the human noise.

Rick Yancey

#20. While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.

Michael Huffington

#21. There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.

Gautama Buddha

#22. I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

Douglas Hofstadter

#23. Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

James Howell

#24. So ... " Her shoulders lifted and dropped. "What? You're going to let that walking cane snuff out the eternally grinning smart-ass that loves inside you?

Candis Terry

#25. If they can snuff out that part of you that's good, the part of you that won't kill, then they win, don't you see? If they can do it to you, they can do it to anyone. And they win. They WIN!

Patrick Ness

#26. He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

Keith Preston

#27. Honor was a luxury item, like hair pomade and snuff. Its only purpose was to show the world that you could afford to be impractical, that you had enough money to behave in a way that was compatible with some ludicrous code instead of acting out of self-preservation like the rest of humanity.

Cat Sebastian

#28. He isn't going to be happy with me. I don't want his anger directed my way when I snuff out his precious one. After all, who wants to fuck with Death.

Abbi Glines

#29. We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so dangerous or deranged or deluded that they can snuff out the life of innocents on a whim.

Gregorio Sablan

#30. Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

Honore De Balzac

#31. C'mon on down to the Whiff and Spit; snuff it up and cough it out, Lewis chanted, giving it a catchy rhythem.

L.J.Smith

#32. God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

Marian Wright Edelman

#33. If we blind them to The Adversary - decrease their desire for The Desire - while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

Geoffrey Wood

#34. Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Marian Wright Edelman

#35. Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

Marcel Proust

#36. Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.

Kingsley Amis

#37. Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#38. 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Miguel De Cervantes

#39. She followed him into a dark parlor to which clung the musky sweet smell of clean Negro, snuff, and Hearts of Love hairdressing. Several shadowy forms rose when she entered.

Harper Lee

#40. I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A.

John Waters

#41. To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.

Robert Liparulo

#42. Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer ... or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded
the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Chuck Palahniuk

#43. Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

William Shakespeare

#44. Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.

Michael R. Fletcher

#45. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory. Matthew 12:20

Thomas Watson

#46. When we learn to respond to each other rather than react, we will move much more quickly in our conflict toward resolution and reconciliation. Reactions only stoke the fires of conflict; responses, particularly godly ones, help us snuff out the conflict.

Matt Chandler

#47. Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

James J. Hill

#48. Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.

John D. MacDonald

#49. Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
The Mark of Athena burns through Rome.
Twins snuff out the angel's breath,
Who holds the key to endless death.
Giant's bane stands gold and pale,
Won through pain from a woven jail.

Rick Riordan

#50. Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to savages, to modern man, are the same faculties that'll snuff out Homo sapiens before this century is out!

David Mitchell

#51. I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.

Dinah Katt

#52. If the source turned out to be opposed to Rezkin, it would be like two wildfires meeting with Ashai in the center. They may snuff each other out, but everyone and everything caught between them would be destroyed. Maker forbid the two find common ground and become one.

Kel Kade

#53. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Shan Sa

#54. Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

Chuck Palahniuk

#55. And what do you keep in such a pretty little box, sir? Snuff?'
Oh, no! It is a great treasure of mine that I wish Lady Pole to wear tonight!' He opened the box and showed Stephen a small, white finger.

Susanna Clarke

#56. This is the key to the entire universe. You know what this is? It's not a microphone, this right here is your voice. This physical thing just amplifies it. Don't be afraid of your voice. You have a voice without a microphone. Use it and don't let anybody snuff you out and tell you don't have one.

Hayley Williams