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Quotes About Ambush

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.
~ Roy Hodgson
The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.
~ John Sarbanes
The viewless air seemed to be flocking with hidden listeners. The very clearness and the crystal silence were their ambush. He alone seemed to be the target of cold and hostile scrutiny. There was not a breath to breathe in this crisp, pale sunshine. It was all too rare, too thin. The shadows lay like wings everlastingly folded.
~ Walter de La Mare
He heard a sickening thunk, his head twisting to the side just in time to see that Darnell had a five-inch-long dart sticking out of his shoulder, its thin metal shaft planted deep within the muscle. Blood trickled down from the wound. The boy made a strange grunt as he collapsed to the ground.
~ James Dashner
One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
like a hunter stalking his prey.
~ Douglas Adams
If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.
~ Agatha Christie
Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.
~ Billy Eichner
The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.
~ Frank Rich
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.
~ Stonewall Jackson
Malay man-catcher.
~ Richard Connell
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.
~ J. K. Bharavi
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Deciding to lure Bourquien off his strong position, Lake gave the order for the infantry to fall back in a feint, and they did so, between two wings of cavalry who lay hidden behind the tall grass. The Marathas took the bait and rushed forward, only to find themselves
~ William Dalrymple
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
~ Horace
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
straight into the ambush de Morès
~ Edmund Morris
We will apply a military technique known as ambush. It is a military technique in which combatants take advantage of surprise and concealment to attack unsuspecting enemy from hidden location." Master Kung said with a smile.
~ Alex Anderson
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
~ Billy Collins
Justice was done. Swithin was a murderer and a rapist who deserved to die. But I found that my conscience was not untroubled. I had lured him into an ambush. In a way the death of poor George Cox was my responsibility. I had meddled in things that should have been left to the law or, failing that, to God. I may yet go through anguish in hell for my sin. But if I had to live that time again I would do the same
~ Ken Follett
include: Patience. The need for patience is, perhaps, the greatest difference between light infantry and line infantry. Light infantry operations proceed much more slowly, primarily due to the requirement for light infantry to operate stealthily. It takes time to discover targets, reconnoiter suitable ambush sites, and move covertly. Training must reflect this. The
~ William S. Lind
Stalking skills. Good stalking skills are essential in order to surprise and ambush enemy forces. Poor stalking skills expose a light infantry force to detection, which often means defeat and destruction.
~ William S. Lind