Quotes About Saboteur

Sarcasm was dangerous to its user, identifiable as the language of the wrecker and the saboteur. But irony – perhaps, sometimes, so he hoped – might enable you to preserve what you valued, even as the noise of time became loud enough to knock out window-panes.

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

Well, if Mr. McLovick didn't plant the bomb, then someone else did.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

As you rise toward virtuosity, you'll become anxious about failure, threatened by a concern of not being good enough and insecure about blazing new paths. So, your amygdala—an almond-shaped mass of gray matter in the brain that detects fear—gets all fired up. And you begin to tear down the productivity you've built up. We all have a subconcious saboteur that lurks within our weakest selves, you know?

To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an apologist for the devil. So Spinoza appeared to his contemporaries, and for many years after his death he was regarded as the greatest heretic of the 17th century.

I always liked playing the villain and the saboteur. Sometimes that even means I sabotage myself, but somehow I'm still here.

These politicians can't see that the atomic age has created the most deadly saboteur in the history of the world – the little man with the heavy suitcase.

These politicians can't see that the atomic age has created the most deadly saboteur in the history of the world Ã¢â'¬â€œ the little man with the heavy suitcase.

How can you make a revolution without firing squads?' Lenin asked. 'If we can't shoot a White Guard saboteur, what sort of great revolution is it? Nothing but talk and a bowl of mush.

The only way to ensure that peasants handed over their grain to feed the Red Army, he insisted, was to order exemplary executions of so-called kulaks, the supposedly rapacious capitalist peasants whom it suited the Bolsheviks to demonize. 'How can you make a revolution without firing squads?' Lenin asked. 'If we can't shoot a White Guard saboteur, what sort of great revolution is it? Nothing but talk and a bowl of mush.

There is strong circumstantial evidence that during the twenty minutes he was taking "a breath of air," George White Rogers prepared an incendiary device—or several such devices—designed to set the Morro Castle on fire and threaten the lives of all its crew and passengers.

a saboteur of goodwill.