Ambushes Quotes

#1. We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?
You called me and I answered

Leigh Bardugo

#3. Ah, ambushes. Those take me back. The best ones are the ones that start with chloroform and handcuffs, and end with death threats and knives. And by 'best' I mean 'most irritating,' you understand.

Seanan McGuire

#4. O Jesus, what a comfort it is that thou hast pleaded our cause against our unseen enemies; countermined their mines, and unmasked their ambushes. Here is a matter for joy, gratitude, hope, and confidence.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. Extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#7. He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.

Stephen King

#8. Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

William Weld

#9. In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

Anthony Doerr

#10. 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Lance Reddick

#11. One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it.

J.P. Delaney

#12. Do you think ... "
He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?"
"That Valentine might have drowned?"
"Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body," said Simon. "That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes. The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Whiskey don't make liars
it just makes fools.

James McMurtry

#15. Cats of all kinds will set ambushes: one frisks around in the open to distract your attention while another one slips quietly up behind.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [ ... ]

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. With a true friend one experiences something in the nature of spiritual enjoyment?

Nikolai Gogol

#18. There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

John Wayne

#19. I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

Sam Childers