Top 32 Assails Quotes
#1. No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
Seneca The Younger
#2. Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#3. The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
Havelock Ellis
#4. Do nothing through human respect and, when it assails you, say: I shall do neither more nor less for the eyes of creatures. O my God, since I wish to please Thee alone, it suffices that Thou seest me everywhere.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#5. The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
Seneca The Younger
#6. Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
Ovid
#7. The truly sacred attitude toward life is in no sense an escape from the sense of nothingness that assails us when we are left alone with ourselves.
Thomas Merton
#8. The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.
Josiah Royce
#10. No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Arthur Schnitzler
#11. A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
Roger Scruton
#12. Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.
Mariella Frostrup
#13. Her scent assails me, and I want to drop to my fucking knees. I snatch them before she changes her mind about giving them to me. "You're going home with me.
Dakota Gray
#14. No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.
Jim Corbett
#15. By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#16. I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
John Bright
#17. Nemo Me Impugn Lacessit - No One Assails Me with Impunity. Or the alternative version - Do Not Fuck with Us or We Will Hurt You
Michael Grant
#18. read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet.
Robert W. Chambers
#19. I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
Jack Black
#20. Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.
J.K. Rowling
#22. Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.
Joel Edgerton
#23. Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#24. If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
Zakk Wylde
#26. Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#27. I grew up partially in Switzerland but mostly in Australia. I lived in Kakadu for a short time - it's an Aboriginal community. My best friend growing up was Aboriginal. She taught me so much.
Isabel Lucas
#28. I learned that the Italians are right. It isn't what happens to us that counts. It's what we do with what happens to us that makes all the difference
Joan D. Chittister
#29. Life: composted lessons for our hearts to blossom into our souls.
Soul Dancer
#30. No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
Alan Cooper
#31. When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts.
Karen Marie Moning
#32. Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
Victoria Moran
