Counterattack 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. A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

Jeff Cooper

#4. He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

Ardant Du Picq

#5. God has not left us defenseless against the devil's strategies of deception. If Satan's weapon of attack is intellectual deception, then our defense and counterattack consist in truth.

Vincent Cheung

#6. The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

Jeff Cooper

#7. The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

Jeff Cooper

#8. The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

Jeff Cooper

#9. It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

Jimmy Smits

#10. This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

Vincent Van Gogh

#14. Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.

David Castle

#15. My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson ... and Placido Domingo.

Josh Young

#16. And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

Kahlil Gibran

#17. We always know better than anybody else what looks best on us. Even if people are complimenting you, if you think, 'I hate what I have on,' it's not right.

Carolina Herrera

#18. Children should be witnesses of parental affection.

Asa Don Brown

#19. Never must we cease to pray until they cease to breathe. No case is hopeless while Jesus lives.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

Raymond Kelly

#21. Changers think of what can bring a change! They do what brings change and they always cause a change before leaving

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. Such meticulousness was touching, as though Maggie poured into the house all the tenderness that was rebuffed by those she lived with.

Victoria Clayton

#23. Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

Greg Palast

#24. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney

#25. All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#26. I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

Keith Briffa

#27. My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing ...

Michelangelo Antonioni