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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are? -- Sarah Vowell
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. -- Herbert Hoover
I do not like assassins, or men of low character. -- Gene Hackman
The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom. -- George W. Bush
I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils. -- Michael Reagan
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. -- Indira Gandhi
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. -- Victor Kiam
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. -- Ambrose Bierce
You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant. -- Robert Lopez
I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant. -- Robert Lopez
Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid. -- Terry Pratchett
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. -- Albert Camus
The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart. -- Norman Parkinson
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. -- Jean Rostand
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin -- Tryon Edwards
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins. -- Mohsin Hamid
What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes. -- Charlie Sheen
A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me. -- Kelly Rowan
It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him. -- Robertson Davies
Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire. -- W. H. Auden
I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want. -- Joe Mantello
What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out. -- Richard Wilbur
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. -- Terry Pratchett
If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it? -- Charles Spurgeon
I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins. -- Gordon Bethune
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison. -- Maajid Nawaz
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind. -- Lysander Spooner
Both of my parents are actors and directors and whatnot. My dad loves really solid, old school, Broadway musicals, and one of them is 'Assassins' by Stephen Sondheim. All of the successful or non-successful assassins that have ever existed in the United States come together, and they talk about their killing or attempts through songs. -- Will Rothhaar
I do not exchange my shirt with ASSASSINS -- Cristiano Ronaldo
We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be? -- Charlie Sheen
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character. -- Ambrose Bierce
How to throw assassins off balance: cry in front of them. -- Leah Cypess
Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times. -- Malcolm X
A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss. -- Brent Weeks
I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT. -- Ken Livingstone
Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds. -- Suetonius
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk. -- W. H. Auden
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. -- John Philpot Curran
When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice. -- R.L. LaFevers
Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins. -- Grenville Kleiser
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. -- Ambrose Bierce
Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins. -- Carrie Vaughn
But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings. -- Jennifer Estep
Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them? -- George Carlin
Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd. -- Alvin Toffler
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. -- Terry Pratchett
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. -- Ambrose Bierce
Why are you all here?" "One of Bantazar's assassins hit you with an exomangler," Lore said. "He's dead." "A lot dead." Wraith snorted and high-fived Lore. "Massive deadness. -- Larissa Ione
The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins. -- George W. Bush
Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins. -- Richard Condon
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top? -- Pat Robertson
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites. -- Henry Miller
I didn't know they'd do this to you. (Syd) It's okay, Syd. Who could have imagined that a man who heads up a company of paid assassins and mercenaries would be psychotic? (Steele) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists. -- John le Carre
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.] -- Denis Diderot
This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins. -- Shannon L. Alder
If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins. -- Muhammad Ali

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