Ambush Quote by Sun Tzu

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

— John Byng

“You can easily discern whether someone is truly interested to learn & know when s/he asks you or cornering and ambushing you to stumble...”

— Assegid Habtewold

She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

— Ovid

“Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the…

— Ali Sina

We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or…

— Jennifer Egan

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

— Samuel Garth

“Okay then, we’re set” he thought. “Come and get it”. The enemy, his enemy, were walking into the classic football ambush and they didn’t…

— Dougie Brimson

“Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. It”

— Andrew Davidson

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“That was the cruelty of memory. The way it could ambush you.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.

— Elliott Chaze