Quotes About Ambush

#1. He breathed out, not quite a laugh or a sob.
God, yes. Bianca, I love you so much. Even if I never see you again, even if we walk out of here into an ambush you set up with your parents,
I am always going to love you.

Claudia Gray

#2. Hearn's death was happily smudged, or at least on the surface, but ever since the second ambush he had been feeling the apprehension of a man in a dream who knows he is guilty, is waiting for his punishment, and cannot remember his crime.

Norman Mailer

#3. This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow. People know my name and ambush me in public and try to figure out what hotel I'm staying at and ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair.

Robert Pattinson

#4. Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.

Mercedes Lackey

#5. My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

Scott Lynch

#6. Hello there!" Cleasby called. "Is anyone home?" "Bravo, sir," Thorny said. "If it's an ambush, that certainly put them off their game.

Larry Correia

#7. In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.

Elliott Chaze

#8. Quiet down," said Falin. "Didn't you say something about an ambush and a murderer?"
"Crap, yes," said Marcus, and pulled Kira down behind the escalator. "Also: murderess. Don't be sexist, women can murder people too.

Dan Wells

#9. "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."

Janet Morris

#10. And what about yellowback dogs who'd use children to kill the whole world from ambush, my friend? The whole universe?" The Weasel blinked at that, as if he'd expected no such reply. Perhaps any reply at all. "I had . . . my orders.

Stephen King

#11. Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade.

Charles Dickens

#12. Our God loves triumphing over what looks impossible; therefore, he calls an ambush without any means of escape "an opportunity"!

Lisa Bevere

#13. The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

Frank Rich

#14. Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My

Maya Angelou

#15. The driver had on Radio 1, which was giving us Kylie Minogue's 'I should be so lucky'....By the song's second verse I was already longing for an IRA ambush and and by the second chorus I was dreaming of a rogue comet strike.

Adrian McKinty

#16. Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
And God Save
as you prefer
the King or Ireland.
The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints

Louis MacNeice

#17. We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

Horace Walpole

#18. Nostalgia lurks, ready to ooze from ambush.

Thomas Pynchon

#19. As you ripen, you'll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.

Andrew Solomon

#20. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#21. Life has its share of joys and laughter - but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard - but God is good, and heaven is real!

Billy Graham

#22. All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

Herman Melville

#23. 18 but these men u lie in wait for their own blood; they u set an ambush for their own lives. 19 v Such are the ways of everyone who is w greedy for unjust gain; x it takes away the life of its possessors.

Anonymous

#24. I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush.

Antonio Machado

#25. 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a stranger is a narrow well; 28 indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases those among men who are unfaithful.

Anonymous

#26. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

H.G.Wells

#27. Blues grew out of the need to live in the brutal world that stood ready in ambush the moment one walked out of the church.

Greil Marcus

#28. Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

Romeo Dallaire

#29. I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.

Peter Landesman

#30. However, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class.

Stephenie Meyer

#31. Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

Sun Tzu

#32. Cats, as any rational person knows, are solitary, opportunistic, ambush predators, much like spiders, but with fewer legs and a better fan club.

Jonathan L. Howard

#33. Am I in trouble? He chortled, well, a bunch of not-so-friendly thugs were waiting to ambush you and blow up your apartment. If that doesn't qualify as trouble, I don't know what does.

Melissa Cutler

#34. Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian)
No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#35. A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

Robert Jordan

#36. One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.

Dorothy Dunnett

#37. Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

Sun Tzu

#38. He was the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who gave nothing and wanted everything, the man who did not allow anyone to leave a trace of her passing in his heart, the hunter lying in ambush.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#39. A short list of things to fear: the hills opening up, automatic weaponry, macho posturing, stepping on a mine, thrown into the air, engulfed in flames, ambush. What Juliet fears: snakes.

Carrie Snyder

#40. ... sitting on the sidewalk outside of his workplace like some creepy stalker ex-girlfriend, waiting for him to come out so I can ambush him with love.

Cynthia Hand

#41. I learned to ambush the fear and I managed to turn vulnerability to ruthlessness.

Euginia Herlihy

#42. Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

John Dryden

#43. For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush ...
Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.

Toni Cade Bambara

#44. I'd gone down to meet Erik so I could surrender, and I had. I'd laid down my sword and armor, and in return, he'd stabbed me square in the chest. It was an ambush.

R.S. Grey

#45. No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain.

Chogyam Trungpa

#46. My mother says we're supposed to make mistakes. That's the way we learn. Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#47. Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade0

Charles Dickens

#48. The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

J. K. Bharavi

#49. Look out, Hadrian," he shouted. "It's an ambush, there's two of them!

Paul Bannister

#50. Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.

Felipe Esparza

#51. How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?

Michael Winter

#52. There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!

Jamie Oliver

#53. I head someone say once that passionate people live violent lives. At the time I didn't really get it but if what they meant was the way love waits in ambush traps your well trained sense of control and tortures you into a confession you'd just as soon not make I now understand.

Jay Kopelman

#54. After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.

Hyder Akbar

#55. Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.

Tim Dorsey

#56. There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

Samuel Johnson

#57. There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

Hafez

#58. Kevin's eyes shot open to complete darkness. What'd happened? His memory was returning slowly. He was now remembering. An ambush outside his apartment in the Vatican.

Peter J. Tanous

#59. Was he suspicious? I don't know. Remember, nobody in the history of the cosmos had been lured into an ambush and chopped to pieces before. He was going to be the first. Lucky guy.

Rick Riordan

#60. Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Samuel Garth

#61. The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

John Sarbanes

#62. What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush?

Mike Wallace

#63. Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it.

Jonathan Tropper

#64. His safe haven had turned into an ambush.

Barry Lyga

#65. Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?

Cindy Sheehan

#66. Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

Horace

#67. A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

Ovid

#68. Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy."
"That's for sure," agreed Rocky.
"But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#69. Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

Mark Hall

#70. People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.

Patricia Highsmith

#71. A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

Lady Gaga

#72. The men of the period of corruption are witty and calumnious; they know that there are yet other ways of murdering than by the dagger and ambush
they know also that all that is well said is believed in.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#73. Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Andrew Davidson

#74. That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush ... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

Genevieve Gorder

#75. Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull

Jayden Hunter

#76. You can easily discern whether someone is truly interested to learn & know when s/he asks you or cornering and ambushing you to stumble...

Assegid Habtewold

#77. I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.

Frank Herbert

#78. I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here ... until Jean shows up.

Scott Lynch