logo

Quotes About Invasion

For most people, carp isn't just garbage fish - it's an invasive species.
~ Andrew Zimmern
This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
~ Bernhard von Bulow
The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.
~ Richard Engel
If Admiral Tourville's invasion-fleet makes it across the Channel without being sunk by the Royal Navy, and if the Papist legion establishes a beachhead on English soil without being destroyed by the Army or torn to bits by an enraged Mobb of English rurals, then I shall personally carry every single one of your coins from the Tower of London to the front in my arse-hole, and Deposit them in some Place where they may be easily Picked Up.
~ Neal Stephenson
Olivia imagined a D-day-style invasion of the island, gardeners with saws and shovels parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches—and were being liberated from the thorny or flowery embrace of climbing vines, deratted, reroofed, fixed up, and condoized. Her apartment
~ Neal Stephenson
But at first the market will be dominated by ignorant ninehammers who'll foolishly assume that King James will prevail—and that he will be ever so annoyed at the Dutch for having allowed their territory to serve as spring-board for an invasion of his country.
~ Neal Stephenson
Unix has always lurked provocatively in the background of the operating system wars, like the Russian Army. Most people know it only by reputation, and its reputation, as the Dilbert cartoon suggests, is mixed. But everyone seems to agree that if it could only get its act together and stop surrendering vast tracts of rich agricultural land and hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war to the onrushing invaders, it could stomp them (and all other opposition) flat.
~ Neal Stephenson
As you probably know, the Vikings invaded France, were bought off with Normandy, settled there, then used it as a base for invading Britain and many other places. The most bad-ass Normans crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror; the ones that stayed behind in Normandy spawned the generations who mostly enjoyed jousting and courtly love, etc. . .
~ Neal Stephenson
It is hard to believe that Gladstone would have ordered the invasion of Egypt in 1882 if the Egyptian government had not threatened to renege on its obligations to European bondholders, himself among them.
~ Niall Ferguson
they were a sort of vermin like plague-rats that had to be exterminated.
~ Niall Ferguson
For I do not believe that divisions purposely caused can ever lead to good; on the contrary, when an enemy approaches, divided cities are lost at once, for the weaker faction will always side with the invader, and the other will not be able to stand alone.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Pero cuando las ciudades o provincias están acostumbradas a vivir bajo un principe, y por la extinción de éste y su linaje queda vacante el gobierno, como por un lado los habitantes estfán habituados a obedecer y por otro no tienen a quién, y no se ponen de acuerdo para elegir a uno de entre ellos, ni saben vivir en libertad, y por último tampoco se deciden a tomar las armas contra el invasor, un principe puede fácilmente conquistarlas y retenerlas.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
In October 1944, we were cruising near Samar, getting ready to help lead the invasion of the Philippines. We had thirteen ships in our group, which sounds like a lot, but aside from the carrier, it was mainly destroyers and escorts, so we didn't have much firepower. And then, on the horizon, we saw what seemed like the entire Japanese fleet coming toward us. Four battleships, eight cruisers, eleven destroyers, hell-bent on sending us to the bottom of the sea.
~ Nicholas Sparks
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
~ Simon Le Bon
What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?
~ Charlotte Ross
L'idea delle pecore predatrici che si nascondevano di giorno negli angoli più inaccessibili delle colline per riversarsi di notte come orde assire sulle file di ortaggi degli agricoltori della vallata era piuttosto singolare.
~ Chris Stewart
You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999
~ Christian Parenti
The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you
~ Christopher Hitchens
Earth was totally unprepared for an enemy made of meat.
~ Christopher Moore
I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest. Up to that time it had been the policy of our army, certainly of that portion commanded by me, to protect the property of the citizens whose territory was invaded, without regard to their sentiments, whether Union or Secession.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
~ Umberto Eco
So Italy was invaded by these Fraticelli or Friars of the Poor Life, whom many considered dangerous. At this point it was difficult to distinguish the spiritual masters, who maintained contact with the ecclesiastical authorities, from their simpler followers, who now lived outside the order, begging for alms and existing from day to day by the labor of their hands, holding no property of any kind.
~ Umberto Eco
A mídia social dá a legiões de idiotas o direito de falar quando antes eles só falavam num bar, depois de uma taça de vinho, sem fazer mal à comunidade... mas agora eles têm o mesmo direito de falar que um vencedor do Prêmio Nobel. É a invasão dos idiotas.
~ Umberto Eco
I social media danno diritto di parola a legioni di imbecilli che prima parlavano solo al bar dopo un bicchiere di vino, senza danneggiare la collettività. Venivano subito messi a tacere, mentre ora hanno lo stesso diritto di parola di un Premio Nobel. È l'invasione degli imbecilli
~ Umberto Eco