#slay

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

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#important #least #life #slay #stress

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#god #life #man #slay #struggle

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

#camp #ever #first #found #great

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#death #love #martyrs #men #prophets

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#dragon #get #going #guy #her