Attacking Quotes - Page 3

• I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

  Al Goldstein

  People, Want, Villain

  8 Copy quote

• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

  Seth Godin

  Progress, Tasks, Path

  5 Copy quote

• This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Morning, Lying, Dark

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 18, 2012

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Hard Times

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.113, Chinese University Press

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't like attacking.

  Barbara Bush

  7 Copy quote

• Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

  David Halberstam

  Careers, Facts, Victim

  9 Copy quote

• To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

  Jacob Epstein

  Reality, Sculpture, Way

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.33, Read Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

  Diane Abbott

  Hurt, People, Persons

  13 Copy quote

• I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Lines, Want

  9 Copy quote

• I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

  Billy Corgan

  Sick, Valuable, Pomposity

  "Billy Corgan Brings The Moths Back To The Flame: The Antiquiet Interview". Interview with Johnny Firecloud, antiquiet.com. June 12, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Teamwork, Israel, People

  10 Copy quote

• Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, Racism, Racist

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Long, Agendas

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  House, Benefits, Empty

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.391, Kodansha International

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

  Lynn Johnston

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

  Jack Handey

  Hate, War, Deep Thought

  "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey, Berkley Publishing Group, 1992.

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Balls, Used

  18 Copy quote

• And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

  Rafik Hariri

  Government, Hands, Leader

  8 Copy quote

• The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

  Mort Walker

  War, Army, Two Sides

  10 Copy quote

• Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Example, Today, Lawyer

  8 Copy quote

• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  Zach Wamp

  Islamic, Years, September 11

  8 Copy quote

• As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

  Amanda Peet

  Writing, Focus, Roles

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.

  Pope Francis

  Government, Long, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium Of the Holy Father Francis". Apostolic Exhortation, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

  David Cameron

  Simple, People, Firefighter

  52 Copy quote