Personal Attack Sayings

#1. Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.

Jonathan Zittrain

#2. Everyone had their own agenda. She just had to stop reacting emotionally: decipher the real motives for their behaviour without taking every word as a personal attack.

Abby McDonald

#3. I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness
since I am always so bowled over by it
and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

Dawn Powell

#4. Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ellen Goodman

#5. In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

Chris Hadfield

#6. This is not a personal attack. It's a statement of fact - Barack Obama has never led anything.

Rudolph W. Giuliani

#7. You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody's personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage.

Dane Cook

#8. There's something about the American people: They have such an innate sense of fairness that the red light goes on and the bells go off the second you approach that line. Any kind of personal attack is verboten. You shouldn't do it; it's not worth it.

Roger Ailes

#9. Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.

Sue Merrell

#10. While the most important thing for a woman to have is money, the second most important is options. A lady must have her options.

Michelle Gable

#11. Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

Jared Polis

#12. I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.

John Elway

#13. If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birthright citizenship.

Ron Paul

#14. In my student days, I detested Schopenhauer. Only later did I come to acknowledge the force of his idea that every relationship involving personal feeling laid one open to attack, and the more people I allowed to become close to me, the greater the number of ways in which I was vulnerable.

Magda Szabo

#15. Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Richard Cushing

#16. Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Confucius

#17. We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

Gerald Bard Tjoflat

#18. Personal dislike as a political end to itself was alien to her; one should not attack people in public except as for political purposes. To this extent, her attitude was the exact opposite of her German colleagues' who deplored personal politics in public, but respected personal dislike.

John Peter Nettl

#19. Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.

Charles F. Glassman

#20. Shift your perspective ... customize a mirror quote to inspire!

Bobbie Thomas

#21. 'm not going to impugn anyone's integrity. I'm not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I'm not going to go personal with them.

Ted Cruz

#22. When things get personal, we need to resist the natural male instinct to run for cover, man the defenses, or--worst of all--reach for the big guns. Much better to set aside our natural defensiveness and focus on listening well even though we feel under attack. Because we're probably not.

Jeff Feldhahn

#23. Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

#24. Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking.

Auliq Ice

#25. He gets away with it because he's strong.'
'This is the story of mankind.'
'I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.'
'Yes. But then I read the newspaper.

Christopher Buehlman

#26. Well, that narrowed down the list of suspects.
To the whole world.

Kim Harrington

#27. Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

Spalding Gray

#28. I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.

Tyler Perry

#29. Your personal devil tries three classical approaches : a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side.

Paulo Coelho

#30. You know, the market was down yesterday ... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

Brit Hume