Assault Quotes

279 quotes by 231 authors

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an… — Haim Ginott
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? — P.D. James
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see… — Che Guevara
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level… — C.S. Lewis
Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation! — Jim Butcher
Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which… — Diana Gabaldon
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this… — David Mitchell
You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk… — Frances Mayes
He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine. — Louise Rennison
Iâ€™m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) Itâ€™s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. — Matt Ridley
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in… — Bell Hooks
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. — Bell Hooks
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the… — John Owen
I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but… — Julie Anne Peters
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front… — Margaret Haddix
The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food… — Richard Rohr

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