First Blow Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

• The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only… — Isoroku Yamamoto
• If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it… — James Alexander Thom
• If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it. — Garry Kasparov
• Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And… — Alcibiades
• He who would be free must strike the first blow. — Frederick Douglass
• Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act… — Ada Louise Huxtable
• . . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out… — Jean Amery
• The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner
• A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings
• The first blow is half the battle. — Oliver Goldsmith
• Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of… — Leon Croizat
• There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,… — Karl Marx
• Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at… — Jacob August Riis
• In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away… — Subcomandante Marcos
• I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.… — Jacob August Riis
• We will always strike first. We will always deliver the first blow. — Adolf Hitler

Who Wrote These First Blow Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 First Blow Quotes as follows:

• 2 First Blow Quotes by Jacob August Riis
• 1 First Blow Quote by Ernst Kaltenbrunner
• 1 First Blow Quote by Josh Billings
• 1 First Blow Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
• 1 First Blow Quote by Leon Croizat
• 1 First Blow Quote by Karl Marx
• 1 First Blow Quote by Subcomandante Marcos
• 1 First Blow Quote by Adolf Hitler
• 1 First Blow Quote by Isoroku Yamamoto
• 1 First Blow Quote by James Alexander Thom
• 1 First Blow Quote by Garry Kasparov
• 1 First Blow Quote by Alcibiades
• 1 First Blow Quote by Frederick Douglass
• 1 First Blow Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable
• 1 First Blow Quote by Jean Amery