The Assailant Quotes

#1. The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

Eric Hoffer

#2. Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

Beatrix Campbell

#3. A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.

Greg Egan

#5. The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.

Walter Savage Landor

#6. It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#7. 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

#8. The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a political climate that urges people to take issues into their own hands.

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#9. If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#10. Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

Thucydides

#11. your fate involves a dark assailant

Sylvia Plath

#12. I think it is very difficult for somebody who campaigned to stay in, who thinks there will be disaster if we leave and so on to suddenly turn it around and start believing that we can make a go of it.

Andrea Leadsom

#13. The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

Benjamin Graham

#14. Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

Jeff Cooper

#16. New York is great though. If you?re here and want a one of a kind souvenir be sure to take home the police sketch of your assailant.

David Letterman

#17. In one particularly dramatic case, an officer instinctively grabbed the gun out of the hands of an assailant and then instinctively handed it right back - just as he had done time and time again with his trainers in practice. Detecting

Brian Christian

#18. The spectator is a dying animal.

Jim Morrison

#19. I sometimes thought that our fast friendship had been kind of like joining a club, one made up of men that thought that Bianca Karlsson was the most perfect woman on the planet.

R.K. Lilley

#20. He smiles. Shifts forward.
'You're fascinating," he whispers.
I nearly choke on my saliva.

Katy Evans

#21. True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#23. Always assume your assailant is armed (even if you can't see a weapon, or have disarmed them of one), always assume they are as good as you, and always assume that they have third parties nearby who can come to their assistance.

Gershon Ben Keren

#24. I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

August Strindberg

#25. The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Terry Tempest Williams

#26. The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

Christopher Bram

#27. Everybody was a potential assailant; nobody spoke to one another for fear of being misinterpreted; nobody comforted another, put an arm around a shoulder-to do so would be to invite accusation.

Alexander McCall Smith

#28. And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

John Milton

#29. 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

#30. I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

Piper Perabo

#31. The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

Leon Foucault

#32. 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

#33. Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For the wounded man shall say to his assailant, 'If I live, I will kill you; If I die, you are forgiven.' Such is the rule of honor.

David Stocker

#34. We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

Jeff Cooper