Quotes About Ambush

How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up.

They ambushed us." "But . . ." Bridget said. "Gwen . . . the fight started when you [shot] into that officer's face." "It is hardly my fault if they did not ambush us more effectively than they did

We stayed here for only a few hours. We rested and went on. But the camera snatched this fraction of a second from the eternal flow of time and froze it forever. At this moment we didn't know that in a few hours we would fall into an ambush. At this moment, while we were filling our canteens from the stream, we didn't yet know that we would stay in the mountains for three days without a drop of water. We didn't yet know anything …

Take a sip from the cup of death... And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

He's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese.

Jamie," he gasped. "We met the Watch near the mill. Waiting for us. They knew we were coming.

Now I know she couldn't ambush a panda bear on Quaaludes.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. SUN TZU

You weren't required to divulge all of your witnesses and describe what they were going to say, no sir. It was trial by ambush.

lay in wait to ambush the corporate mouthpieces sent down to protect the treasured assets of Old Potomac Casualty. They tried to defend their actions by hiding behind the field reports, all of which clearly proved the damages in question were caused by water, not wind. One executive, startled by the ferocity of the attack by

That was the remarkable thing about paper, you can leave it lying in the back of the cupboard drawer for years and when you take it out it retains a trace of scent, sometimes enough to ambush the heart with the memory of a long-lost love.

If your attack is going too well, youre walking into an ambush.

The Aramaic word for prayer (slotha) means 'to set a trap.' Opportunities are like wild animals.

Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught.

The attackers had used one of the oldest and most potent weapons of warfare: surprise.

y el dinero. Lo conocía a fondo: el ritmo sin descanso, el olor, el sabor a sangre amarga, el acecho furtivo, el lenguaje que se hablaba en el mercado.

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.

Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.