Ambush Quotes

• 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 M. Hutchins

  Freedom, Patriotic, Democracies Have

  Great Books of the Western World vol. 1, ch. 10 (1952)

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

  Horace

  Safety, May, Moments

  Horace (1872). “The Odes and Epodes of Horace”, p.170

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• 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

  Break Through, Enemy, Stronger

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.498, Macmillan

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• 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

  Art, War, Lying

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• Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.

  Tim Dorsey

  Fighting, Walks

  "Gator A-GO-GO". Book by Tim Dorsey, January 26, 2010.

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

  Jamie Oliver

  Problem, Can Do, One Thing

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• Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

  Andrew Davidson

  Like Love, Unsuspecting, Accidents

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.5, Anchor

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• 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

  Fear, Pain, Loneliness

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

  Hafez

  Running, Army, Chance

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

  Samuel Garth

  Medicine, Pills, Steel

  Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.54

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• 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

  Strong, Bait, Bass

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains with the protesters. We need to preserve the element of an intellectual ambush and a physical manifestation that takes the government and the police by surprise. It has to keep re-imagining itself, because holding territory may not be something the movement will be allowed to do in a state as powerful and violent as the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Moving, Artist, Frustration

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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

  Scott Lynch

  Names

  Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.291, Spectra

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• 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

  New York, Fans, Hometown

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Jun 12, 2010

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Ruffian, Relentless

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.571

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

  Elliott Chaze

  Moving, Shoes, Snow

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• 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

  Kings, Eye, Land

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Grief, Heart, Self

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• 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

  Love You, Laughing, Parent

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

  Ovid

  Journey, Safety, Pockets

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• however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Class, Waiting, I Can Read

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• They [American Indians] never did straight-up fights. It wasn't about, you know, getting killed in the line of fire. It was all ambush, ambush, ambush, and you ambush somebody, and then you take the scalps, and you - even though scalping wasn't created by the American Indians. It was created by the white man against Indians, and they just took it and claimed it.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Fighting, Men, Fire

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• "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

  God, Drinking, Blue

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