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Quotes About Attack

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.
~ Stuart Bowen
What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.
~ Dmitri Alperovitch
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
~ Jack Adams
The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.
~ Chuck Schumer
Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.
~ Pep Guardiola
You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.
~ Xavi
As required by the unwritten rules of military calamity, the initial attack went well.
~ Rick Atkinson
In Field Order No. 1, Patton had advised his commanders, "Attack both by day and night to the limit of human endurance and then continue to attack." For
~ Rick Atkinson
Secondary Attack Against Fortress Europe,'" n.d., NARA RG 319, OCMH, 2-3.7
~ Rick Atkinson
The silence of many is deafening. Especially when our country is under attack by those who challenge the moral values of our Constitution.
~ RJ Intindola
Once envy eats away at someone, everything you do only makes it grow, and day by day it festers inside him. Eventually he will attack.
~ Robert Greene
On the other hand, an attack on another man's reputation is a potent weapon, particularly when you have less power than he does.
~ Robert Greene
the impulse to "get even" can provoke a vicious circle of attack and counterattack—where each side views the other as evil and won't accept responsibility for fueling the conflict, and
~ Robert I. Sutton
Comadrin wrote, 'Attack on ground where your enemy believes you will not, from an unexpected direction at an unexpected time. Defend where your enemy believes you are not, and when he believes you will run. Surprise is the key to victory, and speed is the key to surprise. For the soldier, speed is life.
~ Robert Jordan
most of the Trollocs had moved off the Heights to attack below.
~ Robert Jordan
Quickly filling those information gaps and protecting the country from another attack became the sole preoccupation of the president and his senior team. Any obstacle—legal, bureaucratic, financial, or international—to accomplishing those objectives had to be overcome.
~ Robert M. Gates
Until al Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Hizballah had killed more Americans than had any terrorist group in history.
~ Robert M. Gates
I told President Obama he was about to buy a helicopter that in several respects was not as good as what he already had, that each would cost between $500 million and $1 billion—but that he could microwave a meal on it in the middle of a nuclear attack. As I expected, he thought the whole thing was a pretty bad idea.
~ Robert M. Gates
But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory
~ Robert M. Pirsig
When the population of Kzin grows too great, we— Attack the nearest human world.
~ Larry Niven
I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us I'd kill them, too, regardless of apparent age, race, sex, or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Meredith," Taranis said, "how can you insult me like this? These men attacked a lady of my court, savaged her. Yet you stand there with them…touching you, as if they are your court favorites." "But, uncle, they are some of my favorites." "Meredith," he said, and he sounded shocked, like an elderly relative who just heard you say "fuck" for the first time. Biggs
~ Laurell K. Hamilton