Assailed Quotes
38 Assailed quotes by 38 unique authors
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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most…
— Alan Rickman
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The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious…
— Lysander Spooner
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Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.…
— Denis Johnson
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Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of…
— Salman Rushdie
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I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
— Albert Camus
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Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of…
— Ivan Turgenev
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One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and…
— Colum McCann
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false…
— Dante Alighieri
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Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm. Shall in the…
— John Milton
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