Assailant Quotes

#1. The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.

Jeff Cooper

#2. In one particularly dramatic case, an officer instinctively grabbed the gun out of the hands of an assailant and then instinctively handed it right back - just as he had done time and time again with his trainers in practice. Detecting

Brian Christian

#3. New York is great though. If you?re here and want a one of a kind souvenir be sure to take home the police sketch of your assailant.

David Letterman

#4. On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

Jeff Cooper

#5. It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#6. Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry.

M.F. Moonzajer

#7. The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.

Walter Savage Landor

#8. A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.

Greg Egan

#9. The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

Benjamin Graham

#10. your fate involves a dark assailant

Sylvia Plath

#11. Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

Thucydides

#12. A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

Jeff Cooper

#15. Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For the wounded man shall say to his assailant, 'If I live, I will kill you; If I die, you are forgiven.' Such is the rule of honor.

David Stocker

#16. The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

Eric Hoffer

#17. Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

Beatrix Campbell

#18. By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.

Jeff Cooper

#19. The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Bruce Lee

#20. And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

John Milton

#21. Everybody was a potential assailant; nobody spoke to one another for fear of being misinterpreted; nobody comforted another, put an arm around a shoulder-to do so would be to invite accusation.

Alexander McCall Smith

#22. I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

August Strindberg

#23. Always assume your assailant is armed (even if you can't see a weapon, or have disarmed them of one), always assume they are as good as you, and always assume that they have third parties nearby who can come to their assistance.

Gershon Ben Keren

#24. The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a political climate that urges people to take issues into their own hands.

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#25. I want you to remember who you are. Remember the man you were when we met? That man. The man that said I'm going to marry that woman.

Lucian Bane

#26. My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

Mem Fox

#27. Only when I hold onto nothing can I be the best, only then can I be what they expect me to be.

Ally Condie

#28. I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Loudon Wainwright III

#29. Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.

Faith Hunter

#30. What you say and do in a crisis matters.

Ami Bera

#31. For whatever we do in our lives, discipline and control over our own actions ultimately measure the level of our success.

R.A. Salvatore

#32. The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Bertrand Russell