Attacks Quotes
606 quotes by 490 authors
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If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them,…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
— Gijs de Vries
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The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.
— Ahmed Yassin
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Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could…
— John Yoo
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A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.
— Frans de Waal
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As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy…
— Evgeny Morozov
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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates…
— Philip Pullman
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With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat…
— Jay Leno
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If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them,…
— Ayn Rand
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There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner…
— Mark Twain
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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
— Yukio Mishima
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During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against…
— Max Brooks
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Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the…
— C.S. Lewis
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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have…
— Lynne Truss
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The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against…
— Samuel Adams
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...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the…
— Hermann Hesse
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In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning…
— George Carlin
Who Wrote These Attacks Quotes
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