#deadly

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#abused #abused-women #anger #crime #crime-fiction

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bagels #butter #butter-knife #creation #deadly

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#competition #deadly #evolutionary #humans #light

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#deadly #monotony #mother #sins

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#freeing #grasp #human #human mind #itself

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#american #been #bury #church #deadly

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#believing #chastity #christian #christian religion #deadly

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bridges #britain #civil #deadly #engineering

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#bandit #between #conventional #deadly #georgia

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#dangerous #deadly #forms #kind #liberating