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Quotes About Invasion

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
~ Stanislaw Lem
Heyecan?m?n içine bir aral?ktan giren soÄŸuk hava ak?m? gibi utanç s?zm??t?.
~ Stefan Zweig
It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.
~ Kevin Brooks
Then there were the distorting effects that unremitting capitalist encirclement had upon the building of socialism. Throughout its entire seventy-three-year history of counterrevolutionary invasion, civil war, forced industrialization, Stalinist purges and deportations, Nazi conquest, cold war, and nuclear arms race, the Soviet Union did not know one day of peaceful development.
~ Michael Parenti
There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
~ Valerie Plame
I've heard Jerry do mini concerts while driving, especially when the music of The Beatles or a handful of other 'British Invasion' bands aired. Hearing Jerry Lawler sing with a British accent is quite an experience.
~ Jim Ross
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.
~ Tom Stoppard
An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people's homes from invasion through squatting.
~ Grant Shapps
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.
~ John Sayles
After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?
~ Michael Ignatieff
Thanks to this ruling, states now had the right to perform surgery on healthy citizens against their will—a liberty never before extended in any advanced country. Yet the case attracted almost no attention.
~ Bill Bryson
Feral Future: The Untold Story of Australia's Exotic Invaders
~ Bill Bryson
I wish you'd find the exit out of my head.
~ Sylvia Plath
Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)
~ Sylvia Plath
invaded you and blinded you to the light.
~ Ted Dekker
I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.
~ Julia Serano
la isla lo invadía y lo gozaba con una tal intimidad que no era capaz de pensar o elegir. (La isla a mediodía)
~ Julio Cortazar
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)
~ Junot Diaz
Don't tell her that your moms knew right away what it was, that she recognized its smell from the year the United States invaded your island.
~ Junot Diaz
You didn't know we were occupyed twice in the 20th century? Don't worry, when you have kids they won't know that the US occupied Irak either.
~ Junot Diaz
Last night they came again. The soldiers had set up a defense perimeter, but there were simply too many—they must have come by the hundreds of thousands, a huge swarm that blotted out the stars. Three soldiers killed, as well as Cole. He was standing right in front of me; they actually lifted him off his feet before they bored through him like hot knives through butter. There was barely enough of him left to bury.
~ Justin Cronin
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
~ Justin Timberlake
I shook my head. "Usually when there's an invasion he goes and stays with his cousin the seed-merchant, just across the border," I said. "I gather he prefers it there to here. The Mysians won't bother you at all. Particularly if you buy their baskets.
~ K.J. Parker
There were whole secret sections that did their work underground then, and sections of the London tube system were used as part of it. There were also plenty of bunkers and tunnels built for use in the event of an invasion.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow