| "The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. (On President Ronald Reagan)" »Muammar Qaddafi |
| "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway." »Mother Theresa |
| "There is always more spirit in attack than in defence." »Titus Livius |
| "I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it." »Tom Stoppard |
| "Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly." »Virgil |
| "As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did." »Robert Benchley |
| "Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack." »Anthony Robbins |
| "Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant." »Sun-tzu |
| "The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." »Dennis Wholey |
| "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home." »Winston Churchill |
| "A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. (On Watergate crisis)" »Gerald R. Ford |
| "I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent." »Assyrian Proverb |
| "Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack." »Steven Runciman |
| "Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch." »Jane Austen |
| "Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied." »Fawn M. Brodie |
| "I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem to act like an eagle. After a while, though, to keep the movie from getting boring, maybe put in some pornography. Later, we see the happy parrot flying along, acting like an eagle. He see two parrots below and starts to attack, but it's his parents. Then, some more pornography." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley |
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