Quotes on Slaying

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.

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

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.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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

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.

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

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.