Attacked Quotes
357 quotes by 313 authors
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If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
— Steven Pinker
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
— Dan Rather
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
— Jean Rostand
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
— L. Neil Smith
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But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
— Fred Thompson
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My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.
— Jesse Ventura
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host…
— Gore Vidal
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of…
— Alice Walker
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You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate her…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
— Samuel Johnson
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
— Douglas Adams
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is…
— John Steinbeck
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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier,…
— John Knowles
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In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For…
— Rick Riordan
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Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you…
— Jon Stewart
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…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which…
— A. S. Byatt
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Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused…
— Frank Portman
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