"Birds rising in flight is a sign that……" — Sun Tzu
"Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware."
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407 Quotes by Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu has 407 quotes on this site.
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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
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All war is deception.
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One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
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To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or…
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This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe…
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Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's…
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact;…
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which…
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More Ambush Quotes
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In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
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This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow.…
— Robert Pattinson
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"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like…
— Janet Morris
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Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
— Andrew Davidson
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I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's --…
— Tom Stoppard
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There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!
— Jamie Oliver
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
— Samuel Johnson
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Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
— Samuel Garth
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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
— Hafez
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