Quotes About Assail

The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society

Common sense," he continues, "takes good care not to assail violently those beliefs which tradition has transmuted into principles. "However, if direct criticism of those beliefs causes common sense to be regarded unfavorably, it will be welcomed with the greatest reserve and will maintain a certain prudence relative to this criticism, which will be equivalent to a proffered reproach.

It is," she wrote, "an unfortunate trait in the human character to assail or asperse others engaged in the performance of humanitarian acts.

read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet.

Light and praise, Love and atonement, harmony and peace. Touch me, assail me, break and make my heart.

We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.

No wonder there had been some among the hunters who namelessly transported and allured by all this serenity, had ventured to assail it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of tornadoes.

Assail picked that moment to scream again—which

Assail: Tell me, is your Dom reputation just talk, or are you truly that perverted? Vishous: Waste my time with gossip and I'll answer that firsthand. Assail: Kinky.

The sea of night was at low tide. That dreaded zone where the worst that has happened to you resurfaces to assail you once again and drag you to the bottom.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.