Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are.
A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are. " I think that can be deadly for creative people.
That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.
We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.
Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it: 1, It's me and my Nation against the World 2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation 3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan 4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation Go against the Fam until they cave in 5, Now who's left in this deadly equation? That's right, it's me against my Brother Then we point a Kalashnikov And kill one another.
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.
Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.
Envy is a deadly sin!
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.
If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.