Art Attack Quotes

#1. In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.

Sun Tzu

#2. While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

Art Buchwald

#3. Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.

Tertullian

#4. Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Jet Li

#5. That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.

Edith Wharton

#6. I'm just not interested." "Do you have ovaries?" Jacob asked. I shot him a look. "Yes." ... "Then how are you not interested.

J. Lynn

#7. He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

Nathanael West

#8. I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

Roger Zelazny

#9. There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

Rebecca West

#10. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone -- and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience.

Joseph Conrad

#11. 'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Tim Crouch

#12. It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

Sun Tzu

#13. Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Georges Carpentier

#14. Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

Kenny Chesney

#15. If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

Art Buchwald

#16. We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.

Marc Benioff

#17. I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

Che Guevara

#18. Music is the strongest form of magic.

Marilyn Manson

#19. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Douglas Adams

#20. You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Bruce Lee

#21. Mr Lincoln suggested that the Lord sent us this terrible war as punishment for the offense of slavery and that the war may be a mighty scourge to rid US of it

Jennifer Chiaverini

#22. Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

Sun Tzu

#23. Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that.

Colton Haynes

#24. Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

Frank Herbert

#25. Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Sterling Hayden

#26. Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.

Madonna Ciccone

#27. I can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#28. It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, be able to evade them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.

Sun Tzu

#29. It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

Sun Tzu

#31. When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.

Wong Shun Leung

#32. In my martial arts days. I was taught a lot of discipline that probably rolls over into other parts of my life. You're not supposed to attack back until you're attacked. You never take your skills and abuse them. I knew I could be lethal to someone my size.

Taryn Manning

#33. Aikido ain't a defensive nor offensive martial art.
It proactively halts the enemy's intention to attack.

Toba Beta

#34. I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end.

Jorge Luis Borges

#35. The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of an attack is an indication that there was an opening in one's guard, and the important thing is to be on guard at all times.

Gichin Funakoshi

#36. Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

Sun Tzu