Attacks Quotes

“Imagine that the country is like a dog. The terrorist attacks are like fleas biting the dog, but what the terrorists are really after is not to bite the dog. It’s to have the dog, in an attempt to get the fleas on him, chew himself to pieces.”
― Dan Carlin

“Maxim 18:
If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.”
― Christine de Pizan, Le Débat Sur Le Roman De La Rose

“I have been attacked by crows and men with grotesque faces; I have been set on fire by the boy who almost threw me off a ledge; I have almost drowned - twice - and this> is what I can't cope with? This is the fear I have no solutions for - a boy I like, who wants to...have sex with me?”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you'll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Unbound

“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion uttered too quickly and thoughtlessly by the mouth of a woman! A woman who condemns a man of high understanding and dedicated study, a man who, by great labour and mature deliberation, has made the very noble book of the Rose, which surpasses all others that were ever written in French. When you have read this book a hundred times, provided you have understood the greater part of it, you will discover that you could never have put your time and intellect to better use!"

My answer: Oh man deceived by willful opinion! I could assuredly answer but I prefer not to do it with insult, although, groundlessly, you yourself slander me with ugly accusations. Oh darkened understanding! Oh perverted knowledge ... A simple little housewife sustained by the doctrine of Holy Church could criticise your error!”
― Christine de Pizan, Le Débat Sur Le Roman De La Rose

“If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential to do great good can handily rival the tendency to carry out great evil. And out of that understanding may I commit in my own life to make certain that in such a critical rivalry I will ensure that towers will never fall because of me, but people will be raised up due to me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“thunder and lightning and our world
is another place no day
will ever be the same no blood
untouched”
― Lucille Clifton

“Don’t mind what people say about you. Instead, focus on what they ‘should’ be saying about you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“New Rome will be destroyed
By the attacks of new vandals.
God always remains silent.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself.”
― Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants

“and God has blessed America
to learn that noone is exempt
the world is one all fear
is one all life all death
all one”
― Lucille Clifton

“Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.”
― Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

“When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Pearl Harbor, the 9-11 attacks, and the COVID-19 pandemic are all classic examples of USA government failures.”
― Steven Magee

“The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.” – Harry J. Johnson”
― William Londen

“Running away is a way of attack.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The devil attacks most after a victory”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Dean Koontz is good in the silence makes silence... then he just attacks!
- WOW”
― Deyth Banger

“I have outlived a few of the kids that I grew up with in Knowsley Village, Liverpool, UK. Two dropped dead at eighteen years of age from heart attacks! They lived across the road from each other and played together. I wonder if it was some exposure that was common to them? Curiously, an entire family of three ladies all got breast cancer just round the corner from them, it killed my friend! A little further up the road another friend dropped dead of brain cancer in her thirties. Always seemed like far too much premature death in such a small area.”
― Steven Magee

“We need to resist all the attacks of the enemy and not get caught in his provocations”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I sighed. At least we knew we were on the right track. People in silly outfits didn't attack you for no good reason.”
― Holly Evans, Chaos Conspiracy

“We didn't want to be bullies, so we decided to forgive and forget and put an end to our attacks.”
― Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

“I routinely encountered people in high altitude observatories that openly stated that they had medically diagnosed heart issues. A high altitude observatory is a place where these people probably should not have been working due to the increased risk of heart attacks.”
― Steven Magee

“Thus the accursed summer passes. Days & nights in hellish succession & poor Puss lies prostrate beneath the attacks of the Dream-Hawks—great carrion birds with wing-spans of ten feet & eyes of blazing coals & cruel talons to rake against my soft cheek & tangle in my hair.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Accursed: A Gothic Supernatural Horror in Woodrow Wilson's Cursed Princeton – Vampires and Dark Academia

“Fake freedom teaches that believers can live on the redline of this world, with one foot on “belief in Jesus” and the other entrenched in what offends holiness. Yet in this position, the enemy has access to attack anytime he chooses.

 This is not faith; it is spiritual roulette.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“Love is history plus desire. Love is dominion.
It is supposed to attack you. When you send it out,
it stings you back like a slap of cold air.”
― Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things

“It doesn’t matter what’s coming at us. God defeated it before it ever left wherever it was coming from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's freezing out there.'

Archer smirked. 'You don't get to choose the weather when someone attacks you.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“A.K. Warder, Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, University of Toronto, who has no interest in whitewashing either side of the conflict, writes: ‘The Turkish conquests of more than half India between 900 and 1300 were perhaps the most destructive in human history. As Muslims, the conquerors aimed not only to destroy all other religions but also abolish secular culture.’2 Will Durant, the well-known chronicler of civilisations, is as categorical: ‘The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history … its evident moral is that civilization is a precious thing whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians.’3 The degree of physical destruction is vouched for by noted art historian Heinrich Zimmer too, who laments that in north India ‘very little survives of the ancient edifices that were there prior to the Muslim conquest: only a few mutilated religious sites remain.’4
Amartya Sen concedes that ‘the slash and burn culture of the Muslim invaders … devastated several cities and ruined many temples, including particularly famous ones in Mathura, Kanauj, and (Somnath).’5 He also acknowledges the account of the Arab–Iranian traveller Alberuni who accompanied Mahmud to India, of this carnage. ‘Mahmud utterly ruined the prosperity of the country, and performed these wonderful exploits, by which Hindus became like atoms of dust scattered in all directions.’6 However, he believes that the Hindutva movement is deliberately highlighting Muslim destruction ‘through motivated selection and purposefully designed emphases as well as frequent exaggeration’.7 He is in a hurry to move away from the barbarism of the Muslim invasion to the undeniable and welcome syncretic elements of Hindu–Muslim culture that developed much later and over time.
It is possible that some politically affiliated sections of Hindu society are seeking to deliberately dwell on Muslim atrocities of the past in order to create religious divisions and exploit them for their own benefit. Such an approach is wrong and needs to be countered. However, it is equally wrong to gloss over history and falsify it for present-day ‘secular’ imperatives.”
― Pavan K. Varma, The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward