Assault Quotes - Page 11

• I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

  Fred Durst

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• I’ve been accused of ‘raping’ the audience in my films, and I admit to that freely — all movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

  Michael Haneke

  Way, Viewers, One Way

  "Minister of Fear" by John Wray, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2007.

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• I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie.

  Woody Harrelson

  Daughter, New York, Character

  "Woody Harrelson claims he mistook photographer for zombie" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  Sam Harris

  Character, Training, Suffering

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• My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

  Kesha

  Long, Minutes, Shows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of Spring.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

  Joe Lhota

  Assault Weapons, Reason, Weapons

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• Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Taken, Rights, Holocaust

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

  Will Self

  Political, Training, Environment

  "Why I said yes to Professor Self" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thoughtful, Perfect, Majesty

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.160, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!

  Jim Butcher

  Giving, Ems, Firsts

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• Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which ye call me names, insult my manhood, kick me in the ballocks and claw my face. Then I beat you half to death and tell ye all the most humiliating things have ever happened to me, and ye say ye love me." He laid his head on his knees and laughed some more. Finally he rose and held out a hand to me, wiping his eyes with the other. "You're no verra sensible, Sassenach, but I like ye fine. Let's go.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Hands, Names

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.320, Dell

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• People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

  David Mitchell

  Suicide, Selfish, Careers

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• You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Fall, Weather

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.214, Macmillan

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• Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Differences, Different

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• He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine.

  Louise Rennison

  Hair

  Louise Rennison (2009). “Are these my basoomas I see before me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 10)”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear a kind word from your lips. But that ship sank under an assault of bitterness that no amount of charm or guile will recover. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Lips, Too Late

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.107, Macmillan

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• I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

  Che Guevara

  Fall, Night, Hands

  Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2009). “Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara”, p.17, Ocean Press

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• And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Block, Heart

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• I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Assault Weapons, People, Upset

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

  Matt Taibbi

  Dream, Winning, Play

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• We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Encounters, Flags

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• Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Sleep, Men

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Disappointment, Mean, Eye

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.82, Macmillan

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