Top 38 Ambushed Quotes
#1. Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
Alice Hoffman
#2. I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
Jefferson Mays
#3. We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety.
John Grisham
#4. One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.
David N. Perkins
#5. They said: "Make it in this amount of time and go for it now ... " Which is why I was suddenly ambushed and we all found ourselves doing it. I suspect this wasn't quite recognisable in its genre to give people the confidence just to throw money at it.
Colin Firth
#6. I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise.
Gillian Flynn
#7. Young certainly wouldn't have expected to be ambushed by three yuppies gone bad in El Paso, Texas. . . . young had never before been taken down by people wearing expensive shoes and tailored suits...not physically, anyway. He'd gone up against plenty of sharks in Washington DC,....
J. Fally
#8. I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.
Peter Beard
#9. You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.
Martha Grimes
#10. So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
John Dryden
#11. It had been a week since he'd ambushed her. She'd hoped the lack of contact would get him out of her mind. Instead, she felt like a junkie whose drug of choice was being withheld.
Laura Oliva
#12. I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.
Lynsey Addario
#13. Listeners are kind of ambushed ... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
Billy Collins
#14. We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn't we be ambushed by joy?
Cinda Williams Chima
#15. People usually take decades to sort out their view of the universe, if they bother to sort at all. I did my sorting during one freakish summer in which i was ambushed by science, fame and suggestions of the divine.
Jim Lynch
#16. I sat down with little time to prepare for my back being ambushed by the wintry digits otherwise known as Tetra's toes.
G.L. Tomas
#17. The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull
Jayden Hunter
#19. All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
Tom Stoppard
#20. Great, thought Jack. I'm on marathon walk to London, likely to be ambushed by diseased nutters at any moment and I'm stuck with a load of idiots who sound like they've escaped from the set of In the Night Garden.
Charlie Higson
#22. This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals shopped for, cooked, eaten with Jim. They stab out at George as he passes, pushing his shopping cart. Should we ever feel truly lonely if we never ate alone?
Christopher Isherwood
#23. I'd rather lie in a hammock with you
with nothing but happiness surrounding us
and be ambushed than run away.
Anne Greenwood Brown
#24. Tod crossed his arms over his snug white T-shirt, silently giving me the floor. Fortunately, I was prepared.
"Sabine ambushed me in the hall this morning and gave me a lecture on sex."
Tod's brow's rose halfway to his hairline.
"I hope you took notes ...
Rachel Vincent
#25. are not entitled to see any of it. If you try to
John Grisham
#26. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.
Scott Woods
#27. In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
P. J. O'Rourke
#28. I want my world to start and end with you.
E.L. James
#29. And get me clean clothes and fresh water." "Since when am I your valet?" "Man with a knife, remember?" he said over his shoulder. "Man with a gun!" Jesper called after him.
Leigh Bardugo
#30. I've learned that the only things we are in control of are the choices we make at any one given moment.
Patricia Vanasse
#31. Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#32. Whenever you hold a gun, it's really the gun that's holding you.
Marlon James
#33. It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West
#34. It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
George W. Bush
#35. Character, like film, develops in darkness.
Yousuf Karsh
#36. Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.
Michael Chertoff
#37. I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.
Lee Ann Womack
#38. She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.
Gillian Flynn
