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Quotes About Assault

Curran, please don't bite his head off." "Why?" "Because it's illegal. Technically you assaulted him first when you threw him across the lawn." "I didn't throw him very far. I rolled my eyes. "I could've thrown him straight up and let him land on the pavement." "That would also be illegal." "You keep bringing this 'illegal' thing up as if it means something to me.
~ Ilona Andrews
Clothes don't have magic powers, Derek. They don't mystically protect you from three-inch claws, rapists, or murderers. If someone decides to hurt you, they will do so whether or not you have a thin layer of denim over your skin.
~ Ilona Andrews
In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.
~ Rupert Holmes
What must be understood is this: attackers attack as a form of defence. It is their instinctive response to threat, real or perceived. It may be desperate or it may be habit, or both, when desperation becomes a way of life. Behind the assault hides a fragile person.
~ Steven Erikson
The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,' observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. 'All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.
~ Steven Erikson
This was the lure of violence, and violence did not begin at the moment of physical assault; it began earlier, in all the thoughts that led up to it, in that storm of vehemence and venom. Rage beckoned violence
~ Steven Erikson
It was merciless, the country's assault on those who would chase her children from her landscape.
~ Storm Constantine
Tatiana Mamanova, a Soviet feminist, responding to a question about the difference between the West and Russia, replied, The pornography... it's everywhere, even on billboards... [it] is a different kind of assault. And it doesn't feel like freedom to me.
~ Naomi Wolf
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
~ Camille Paglia
Curran, please don't bite his head off." "Why?" "Because it's illegal. Technically you assaulted him first when you threw him across the lawn." "I didn't throw him very far." I rolled my eyes. "I could've thrown him straight up and let him land on the pavement." "That would also be illegal." "You keep bringing this 'illegal' thing up as if it means something to me.
~ Ilona Andrews
The birds tried a direct assault just after dark. I let that idiot and your werewolf have them. I think Sean might be disturbed. He cut off their heads and put them on sticks in the back yard.
~ Ilona Andrews
Tal como decía Belalcázar, con autorización del rey la aventura se llamaba conquista, sin ella era asalto a mano armada.
~ Isabel Allende
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
And one of the unfortunate-but-sad truths is that sexual assault, sexual violence is far more prevalent in American society than a lot of people recognize.
~ Tony West
I was assaulted twice by Aisleyne Horgan Wallace and Janice Dickinson.
~ Farrah Abraham
They weren't expecting the attack.
~ Suzanne Collins
As we reach the next corner, the entire block ahead of us lights up with a rich purple glow. We backpedal, hunker down in a stairwell, and squint into the light. Something's happening to those illuminated by it. They're assaulted by . . . what? A sound? A wave? A laser? Weapons fall from their hands, fingers clutch their faces, as blood sprays from all visible orifices — eyes, noses, mouths, ears. In less than a minute, everyone's dead and the glow vanishes.
~ Suzanne Collins
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.
~ Bryan Singer
When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.
~ Julie Andrews
The doorbell rang like a rape, or the tearing of ripe flesh.
~ Charles Bukowski
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?
~ Charles Frazier
it's like being attacked by a RAT!
~ Chaucer Geoffrey
My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.
~ Kesha
It's a way to attack an enemy systematically—all over, all at the same time. And you can do real harm that way.
~ Tom Clancy