Assault Quotes · Page 4

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

— Mark Twain

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

— Charles Schumer

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

— Mark Steyn

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

— Kesha

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

— Anonymous

Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

— Glenn Reynolds

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

— William Butler Yeats

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

— Mark Twain

Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war

— Kiera Cass

I'm a sexual assault survivor. I have long felt like Bill Cosby needed to be held accountable. But I keep wondering if…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has…

— Stefan Zweig

If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and…

— John R. Lott Jr

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward…

— John Green

Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A…

— Tammara Webber

I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues…

— Barack Obama

Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a…

— Angela Davis

You can't really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening…

— Michael Nutter

Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I…

— William Shakespeare

There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms,…

— Robert Byrd

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible,…

— Jessica Valenti

Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the…

— Colin Powell

In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that…

— Bell Hooks

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

— Plutarch

“Some of the biggest assaults on my health have been from car crashes.”

— Steven Magee

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

— Ismail Haniyeh

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his…

— Leonard Ravenhill

“He threatened Liam with assault, that’s why I didn’t go to the police. I couldn’t put it on my dad.”

— Stephanie John

We must permanently reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and the restrictions on high capacity magazines.

— Kerry Kennedy

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

— William J. Clinton

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

— Mariska Hargitay

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

— Joe Manchin

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

— Jackson Katz

I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

— Claire McCaskill

I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.

— Emma Sulkowicz

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

— Sheryl Crow