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When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

William Shakespeare

Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Storm Jameson

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Woodrow Wilson

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Albert Camus

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

We acknowledge that it is going to be difficult for a jury to hear that Charles Boney was there, that Charles Boney sold a firearm, when you're talking about the murder of a young woman and her two children.

Patrick Renn

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

Auberon Herbert

I'm entirely satisfied that the defendant Michael Peart knew exactly what he was doing when he pleaded guilty to murder on July 15.

Peter Fox

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Daniel Webster

We know a little more about murder than a lot of people because we have had people in our families who have been murdered.

Christopher Darden

We should remember that they were not born with a lust for murdering Israelis.

Avi Dichter

The verdict makes a lot of sense. I didn't think first-degree murder was really an option in this case.

Peter Berger

It is actually not terribly common to have a mistrial in a murder case.

Lori Sitler

It seemed like someone needed to take my statement since I was an eyewitness to a murder case.

Dale Williams

You can commit murder, you can do anything you want, and still collect Social Security.

Charlie Cox

He let go and I started screaming bloody murder.

Michael Waters

Vanity, like murder, will out.

Hannah Cowley

We all four knew that Ed had something to do with James's murder.

Harry Duff

The fact is the gun that was the murder weapon was the gun she hid. It was bagged by police and tagged into evidence. There is a chain of custody. It was the only gun recovered.

Roe Wilson

To go out and murder innocent civilians.

Osama Bin Laden

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Upton Sinclair

At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will come to the same conclusion that she is not insane and that she is guilty of capital murder.

Alan Curry

The victim's vehicle may have been the murder scene. We don't know yet.

Cmdrjames Tolbert

Normally it is a frightening thing to think a 13-year-old could commit murder in the first degree, With this evidence, there is no doubt that is what (he) has done.

Andrew Baird

It was totally premeditated. They came to the UK to commit a murder, as a result of a blood feud in Albania.

Richard Freeman

Four people have been arrested, and firearms which we suspect were used in the murder were recovered.

Wayne Bvudzijena

Nothing can justify the murder of innocent people. People across Britain will be sickened by this video.

David Davis

To my knowledge, it has never been this high. Frankly, the way cases move through the criminal justice system, it's making it very, very difficult for my office to manage 91 murder cases.

Harry Shorstein

It was an intentional murder. I intended to shoot them, and I did.

David Ludwig

We're just stunned, but we're overjoyed. It's not often that the Court of Criminal Appeals grants new trials in felony capital murder cases.

Michael Charlton

It is the worst case of airline terrorism -- the largest mass murder in the world.

John Grant

We have a breakdown in our criminal justice system. On Jan. 5, 2006, there was a conspiracy to commit a murder, and after that there was a conspiracy to hide the murder.

Sen. Gary Siplin

Leaves no doubt as to the way mass murder was planned and carried out.

James Foley

It stretches things pretty badly. It's a good murder mystery, though.

Michael Fuller

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

Potentially, we're looking at either murder or capital murder depending on the circumstances.

Chris Kirk

The evidence shows us there was an accident that deteriorated into panic and then murder.

Richard Nichols

It's been murder, but fun.

Larry French

The murder facts in this case ... are real, real traumatic on jurors and it's hard to handle, ... It gets you emotionally when you see the pictures of the body and learn the treatment.

James Gray

This an animal abuse case. This is pure and simple murder.

Bonnie Reed

The difference between murder one and murder two is not so much what the person did, it's what was in their mind at the time.

George Reres

There are no precedents in law dealing with a tragedy of this type where somebody intentionally caused the death of 5,000 people and you sue somebody else to blame them for that murder, that is new.

Victor Schwartz

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Certain felonies, like robbery, constitute first-degree murder, ... But in this case the third-degree felony is battery -- which is not in the listing of charges -- the beating of Terry King with the bat. For third-degree murder, you only have to show that the defendant intended to commit the battery.

David Rimmer

There really is a feeling that you can get away with murder in Nuevo Laredo.

Michael Yoder

The taking of a human life is the ultimate crime. Irreversible. It does not matter to the victim of a murder whether the person holding a gun is 16 or 60.

Bob Grant

I believe that the jurors will understand the difference between murder and an act of mercy and compassion. Just because the prosecution has indicated that this is murder, that does not mean it is so.

David Gorosh

It's encouraging to see that the Police Department is tackling this epidemic of murder and violent crime head-on.

Peter Scharf

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

Nancy Reagan

We're a pretty boring band. We get good sleep. Eat well. We don't really party at all, which is going to make our tour with the Black Dahlia Murder pretty interesting. I hear they're pretty 'party hard' guys.

Tommy Rogers

Find him guilty of murder, ... That's the verdict that the state of Mississippi asks you to return.

Mark Duncan

When is enough enough? (Prosecutors) got their murder-one.

Jon Mcmullen

Detective Coffey expressed the opinion on the night of the murder, 'Blake's full of shit,'.

Gerald Schwartzbach

In America you can get away with murder, but not with sex.

Xaviera Hollander

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

G. H. Lewes

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

Duke Ellington

Murder is murder is murder, and there can be no other response but to denounce it completely and express revulsion.

Bentzi Lieberman

DNA can't prove intent. You have cases where you already know who did it. The question is, when you take all the facts, what crime is that? First-degree murder? Second-degree? Manslaughter?

Barry Staubus

I can't blame the victims for crying bloody murder. They've been through a typical war but instead of bombs and guns they got hit by winds and water.

Ronald Davis

Unfortunately Brad was there also but he could not be spared because he would be a witness to the murder of his father.

Peter Smid

Murder Alfresco: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery.

Chronicle Books

The present charge is one for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. There is a possibility of a life sentence.

Shashi Nathan

Luck plays a big part in a lot of murder investigations.

Jim Dutton

No, I killed her. There's a difference. Murder is premeditated, something thought out.

Wilbert Rideau

Our options are murder or nothing.

Charles Roberts

This is a freedom of speech issue, and we're going to use the First Amendment to declare that abortion is murder. We're going to do it in front of the courthouse and courtroom, and we're going to do it across the nation.

Troy Newman

You just don't let people walk away from murder.

Michael Zaleski

Everyone is a suspect. There is another murder that the killer couldn't have committed. No one will guess the surprise ending.

Dora Murray

There are a number of legal issues. No. 1, two different cases were consolidated, and we didn't think they proved their case on the murder charge.

David Schieck

We're defending four murder cases instead of two.

David Ruhnke

Mary Winkler has confessed to the murder of her husband, Matthew Winkler, shooting him on March 22, 2006 and leaving Selmer with their three daughters.

Roger Rickman

We were getting really good at trying those murder cases.

Ray Belgard

Won't be able to sleep well. ... People who commit murder shouldn't be able to walk around without fearing the long arm of the law.

Simeon Wright

It is not an accident but a brutal murder.

Laloo Prasad Yadav

Our truth is, redskin is tied to the murder of indigenous people.

Billy Mills

The courts have let her get away with a lot. Heck, they let her get away with almost murder now.

Jason Mcgregor

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

Jack Dee

I'm really happy that Lionel and his mom have reunited in their belief that he should enter a 'guilty best interest plea' [guilty to second degree murder].

Richard Rosenbaum

I know $250,000 sounds like a lot of money, but in a capital murder case, bail that low is virtually unprecedented.

Greg Moeller

I can't live in a community where it is perfectly acceptable to murder an innocent man and still walk around freely.

Paula Mccartney

I didn't murder him, he was already dead when I cut his throat.

Jack Mccann

It's murder. And a murder conviction shows that transgender lives are valuable.

Gwen Smith

Brett's murder adds to my fear for the future.

David Gleason

This case is not about intent to kill. The evidence will not support a charge of murder. It is an accident that turned fatal.

Angela Warner Sims

Life and death are God's decisions. If it is made through a court verdict, that equals murder.

Agus Saputra

The law is the law, and you are here to enforce the law. There are two competing theories of reality here as to what happened ... This is an odd situation. It's not a murder situation.

Mike Ramsey

There was nothing involuntary about this. Basically, this guy got away with murder.

Steve Tash

I said he'd gotten away with murder, ... And then he said, 'I'm gonna get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy.'

Gregory Coleman

We are holding the two as we follow some leads that will lead us to uncover the aim of the heinous murder.

Simon Kiragu

Look at the fellows with 30 cases of murder, attempted murder, extortion, rape against them. They are elected again and again even when they are contesting from jail.

Inder Malhotra

This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly.

Johnny Adriani

I teach about war, murder, capital punishment, sex and marriage, homosexuality, the environment -- who isn't interested about this stuff?

Prof. Charles Mathewes

We are seeking to reinstate the first-degree murder charge.

Rusty Hills

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

P. D. James

The evidence clearly showed he committed first?degree murder. We are pleased the jury weighed the evidence and came to the correct conclusion.

Betty Rogers

You ask yourself, why would someone confess to a murder that they didn't commit? We've got to treat it as at least credible. . . . There's no reason not to believe him.

Sheriff Darren White

When your lordships carefully and critically examine the evidence, they will be driven by that to conclude that each of the accused is guilty of murder.

Alastair Campbell

Syria had nothing to do with this murder, absolutely nothing.

Bashar Assad

We don't know if they are suicide or murder or accident. We may never know.

Frank Minyard

I think the evidence establishing first-degree murder was very clear.

Debra Riva

I don't think that would even apply theoretically, first-degree murder, you know, because you would have to have an intent to do something, and if you just look at the facts, even if you would want to construct something, I don't think you can even construct first-degree murder.

David Kock

I knew there was people that would think that [the murder was wrong]. But if it's always wrong, why do people think I deserve the death penalty for killing Gary?

Michael Jennings

I am a little concerned we were swinging for the fences in our first at-bat with someone who'd committed second-degree murder.

Mike Woodard

We're seeking an indictment for murder.

John Conte

We do know that we are dealing with a homicide. Presumably, the person who set the fire did so to disguise the murder.

Diane Richardson

Has no knowledge of the facts of the murder.

Jack Abramoff

I can't recall another 14-year-old female charged with first-degree murder since I've been state attorney, but we have had males that young.

Harry Shorstein

If (Fhimah) was not aware of that objective then he cannot be guilty of conspiracy, he cannot be guilty of murder and he cannot be guilty of the alleged breach of section two of the Aviation Security Act 1982.

Richard Keen

We examined the evidence from every angle before accusing smith of murdering his wife.

Jim Oliver

But it had nothing to do with (the murder) case.

Capt. Martin Mccoy

Twenty-five years ago, drunk driving was the last socially acceptable form of murder in America. And those pioneers of MADD set out to change that.

Glynn Birch

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Simon Winchester

The mother is significantly more injured than that. It could turn into a murder case.

Phil Sorensen

The thing about the cabinet job was, travel was murder. I've never been afraid of hard work -- the thing is, I'd be able to work from the city I live in.

Christy Clark

If a person is accused of murder and there is a warrant out for their arrest, we would arrest them. We'll look at it on a case-by-case basis. It makes good sense.

Kate Philips

He didn't even know where the girl had been killed, ... He took the police and told them it had happened on a bridge that wasn't been built until four months after her murder.

James Lockyer

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Alexander Berkman

We believe it was a sexual assault and possible attempted murder, ... He intended to leave her there, and she wasn't going to get out of the situation.

Mike Driscoll

This was a mass murder. This was a bombing attack carried out on Canadian civilians and the consequences of that have to be understood by the people of Canada.

Bob Rae

Was the second accused aware that there was an intention to use an explosive device for the destruction of a civil aircraft and the murder of its occupants?

Richard Keen

I was disappointed myself at the outcome. I think she should have been convicted of felony murder.

Robert Carpenter

She stole his life. She stole his hope of anyone else saving his life. That's murder.

Richard Alpert

We don't believe Machain had anything to do with that murder.

Matt Murphy

Have you ever heard of first-degree murder without a motive. Use your common sense. He did not even know Ronnie Green.

Geoffrey Fieger

Believe me, if I started murdering people… there'd be none of you left!

Charles Manson

He's been charged with residential burglary, arson, capital murder, theft of property and breaking and entering.

Mike Allen

[So is Murder at Oil Drum Lane now the end for Albert and Harold?] It's a new chapter and I suppose it's the final one, ... I can't see anything else that could be done with Steptoe and Son except another play. I don't envisage that but I would never rule it out.

Ray Galton

At the moment this is a murder inquiry, but we will be looking into the lessons which can be learned from this.

Michael Todd

Our office does not appoint special prosecutors, nor do we have jurisdiction to investigate the crime of murder.

Juanita Scarlett

He will be be filed on for attempted capital murder.

Brad Allison

It is terrible that there is another murder as, regardless of the victim's background, this can only add to the tensions that exist in the loyalist community.

Jim Rodgers

Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything.

Michael Assael

I apologized to him about the score. I told him that's the only way I could play him. He wouldn't want to murder me like that.

Archie Carlyle

It's a drug-infested, crime-ridden murder trap.

Sonya Davis

Olivier's was, to my mind, the definitive Macbeth. Olivier had murder in his heart the moment he came on the stage.

John Gielgud

It didn't hit me that it was a murder.

Gary Klein

We are treating this as murder, and are appealing for anyone with any information to contact our incident room which has been set up at Fairwater police station, on 029 20 571 530.

Paul Kemp

Now they want to point out that this has happened over and over again, and it was never a motive for murder.

Dean Johnson

We are treating it as both murder and suicide because there were children involved.

Assuman Mugenyi

There have been dramatic changes in the way murder cases are handled. Judges now have to schedule a lengthy sentencing hearing and there are now only five inmates on death row, down from close to 40 in August.

Nancy Anderson

Danny was an outstanding colleague, a great reporter, and a dear friend of many at the Journal. His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything Danny's kidnappers claimed to believe in.

Paul Steiger

It's murder. Even a bear doesn't get shot three times.

Rodney Van Dunk

We think it is very regrettable that shortly after the murder the North African community was immediately accused, certainly now that it appears the culprits were not from that community.

Glenn Audenaert

The act has to cause the death. If failure to provide medical help caused the death, then they cannot prove murder. ... It was the failure to get medical help, not any act.

Jeff Kearney

It's not a case about abuse. It's a case about cold-blooded, intentional murder perpetrated by Cody Posey.

Janice Schryer

We're on trial for murder, not for supplying a handgun.

Patrick Renn

I have been a victim of a corrupt government, ... You are guilty of murder.

Robert Pickett

Murder in My House.

Gary Hudson

He's just a murdering idiot.

Nicole Brown

He's mean. He's hateful, ... He's bloodthirsty. He wanted to kill her. Murder was on this boy's mind.

Tim Jones

We are holding two people as we follow some leads with the aim of uncovering the heinous murder.

Simon Kiragu

I think if you rape and murder a child, you deserve death.

Jenny Slight

If we change one life, if we keep one person from being tried for murder, it will be a success. Anything past that is a bonus.

Roger Hurst

He approved of the mass murder of Jews during national socialism. He approved of terror acts and he approved of the violent conversions of infidels to Islam.

Kay Nehm

Maybe it would have been a murder conviction instead of a capital murder conviction if this had been disclosed.

Robert Rosenberg

He did have some enemies, obviously, but it's hard to see someone doing something like this. This is a genuine murder mystery.

Phillip Russell

The grandmother, Annie Williams, had been charged by us with manslaughter, but the grand jury is returned now with a charge of murder in the first degree.

Jim Leljedal

I think most of the time it's met with great skepticism because murder is a deliberate act of one human against another.

Jenny Wieland

Did he murder Bonny? I don't know, but certainly he's a very, very likely suspect.

Cary Goldstein

I did, ... But it could be manslaughter, not murder. It's not necessarily murder. But it doesn't bother me what you call it. I know what it is. This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.

Jack Kevorkian

We do seem to bicker and bicker. Sometimes I feel we're like an old married couple, who think occasionally of murdering each other -- but never of divorce.

Denis Macshane

The family knew it from day one. We know this was a murder. We know the motive. We know . . . we know a lot more than I can talk to you about today.

Michael Holden

I was just overwhelmed, but I knew it was the truth because he is not a murdering child.

Betty Davis

It was pretty short for a murder trial.

Lori Adams

That was the first time there was this incredible media hype around a murder. Was it murder? Was it an accident? Everyone knew he was a boy trying to better himself. And everyone knew there was a wealthy girl involved.

Francesca Zambello

The trend has certainly been the majority of first-degree murder cases you will hold defendants without bail pending trial.

Mark Lancaster

Every crime scene, every murder scene, is a heinous crime, but this is one of the worst we've ever seen.

Roger Wade

He is charged with multiple murder for the siege.

Arturo Lomibao

I shot mom as she was sitting in the chair, ... It was an intentional murder, I intended to shoot them, and I did.

David Ludwig

I'm reasonably confident he would have been convicted of forgery, fraud and homicide. He would have been convicted of first-degree murder, a capital offense.

Gerry D'elia

Every murder trial is challenging because the stakes are so high.

Rusty Hills

We had our breakfasts-whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Wilkie Collins

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

Julia Ward Howe

As far as murder, and murdering him, someone murdered my son; I don't think it has anything to do with the rap industry. That did not murder my son. It is, I can safely say, that if my son did not have the position, the job that he sought out, maybe he would be alive today. But I would not say that the rap industry murdered him.

Christopher Wallace

There isn't any question that this is a murder. We believe that there were other people involved in this, and we expect to make more arrests.

Martin Gleeson

He should have never been out in the first place. That's crazy. If he had been violated those girls would still be living. ... Even though he didn't kill them, he should be charged as an accessory to murder.

Bobby Williams

It is very important to make sure that they have the people who did this terrible murder.

Gabriela Rodriguez

Fake drugs is a business that is equivalent to murder.

Gao Feng

It just makes your blood boil when you reflect on what bright futures those two girls had and the senseless murder that took their lives.

Toby Shook

John's just tried to murder me. But he didn't succeed.

Jill Bennett

There's a slayer statute that says if you murder somebody else, you don't inherit from their estate. But if he was involved [in the embezzlement], then that's why you have to include everything, because he could be liable [if] he was an accessory to the crime.

Melissa Walker

I feel like it's injustice if he doesn't get prosecuted fully for the crime of murder of James.

Harry Duff

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

We can't rule out whether we have the homicide of the three folks or a murder suicide type thing.

Tracy Conaway

Fingerprints match in 10 murder cases as well as one ... attempt.

Bernardo Batiz

We don't have any witnesses that saw anybody run from the house. We don't have any DNA. There's really an absence of any evidence of an intruder murdering Lee Jones and then fleeing.

Joe Ward

Those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us. . . .

Bill Bennett

How come there are so many murders in the African-American community? What other place can you get away with murder?

Adreinne Young

The house could have been ransacked to divert police attention and to portray as if the cause of the murder was robbery.

Anil Shukla

It is unusual to try to place someone for first-degree murder in anywhere but the Youth Authority, in my opinion.

Andrew Baird

He took me to court. I remember handling a gun from a murder case when I was 12.

Ming Chin

I thought they were just trying to pin this murder on him because he's deaf. I still have a hard time believing it.

Patricia Pratt

He testified about murdering his mother without any emotion at all, it was just chilling really.

Brendan Moore

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Arnold Toynbee

This is not a case about football or football players or the Super Bowl, ... This is a case about the murder of two young men.

Paul Howard

This story is a murder story. There's no doubt about it, no matter how we try to spin it.

John Fitzgibbons