Onslaughts Quotes

#1. In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.

James Stephens

#2. All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

Simon Jenkins

#3. It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Livy

#5. Yet we cannot live our daily lives in a realm of pure ideas, cocooned from sense-experience. The question is not, How can we keep the imagination pure, protected from the onslaughts of reality? The question has to be, Can we find a way for the two to coexist?

J.M. Coetzee

#6. We may feel that a particular habit 'isn't too bad,'but continually giving in to that habit weakens our wills against the onslaughts of temptation from other directions.

Jerry Bridges

#7. Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#8. Unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

John Cassian

#9. H-h-holy mackeral, he was hotter than a two-dollar pistol. Literally and figuratively. He radiated heat like a blast furnace. And he was straight-up, pantiesonthefloor, legsintheair, haveatmebigboy sssssmokin' sexy.

Julie Ann Walker

#10. I was in a strip club trying to help a ghost get laid which was challenging, but not impossible.

A.J. Locke

#11. Tessa has an obsession with Target that I'll never understand.

Anna Todd

#12. Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Sidney Sheldon

#13. Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

Darren Main

#14. Sod off! Psych 101. There are five stages of grief and I'm owning that shit. They ARE my bitches.

Christine Zolendz

#15. Of course the fear of having my heart broken is there but that would be true with anyone you're falling for. Every time you have the chance to climb high, you also have the chance to fall.

Karina Halle