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Quotes About Ambush

Springes to catch woodcocks.
~ William Shakespeare
One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.
~ Winston Groom
I head someone say once that passionate people live violent lives. At the time I didn't really get it but if what they meant was the way love waits in ambush traps your well trained sense of control and tortures you into a confession you'd just as soon not make I now understand.
~ Jay Kopelman
Was this first contact, or last contact?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.
~ Peter Landesman
I'll let you sweat a while. You ain't gonna know when it's comin' or from where. You'll just be walking along or riding somewhere—and bing—that's it.
~ Richard S. Prather
Leopards did not chase prey like cheetahs, or stalk the tall grass like lions. The leopard simply set up on a wet spot, above the mud, out of sight, hidden. The leopard didn't need a cheetah's speed, or have to search for prey like a lion. The leopard knew if he staked out something his prey wanted, his prey would come to him.
~ Robert Crais
strike from the shadows, disapear into darkness
~ Derek Landy
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. It
~ Andrew Davidson
Svaka nesre?a napada lakoverne iz zasede, baš kao i ljubav.
~ Andrew Davidson
with such skill that he approached the Indian camp within fifty yards before he was noticed. The Indians fired immediately upon Mr. Cody and Sergeant Foley. Mr. Cody killed one Indian; two
~ Robert A. Carter
The spider has no need to chase for food, or even to move. It quietly sits in the corner, waiting for its victims to come to it on their own, and ensnare themselves in the web.
~ Robert Greene
A crafty enemy," Caldin said heatedly before Reene had gone five paces, "will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.
~ Robert Jordan
The driver had on Radio 1, which was giving us Kylie Minogue's 'I should be so lucky'....By the song's second verse I was already longing for an IRA ambush and and by the second chorus I was dreaming of a rogue comet strike.
~ Adrian McKinty
Recall that one builds a labyrinth not to hide but to lie in wait.
~ Adrian McKinty
Vampires aren't the only ones who can hunt.
~ Diana Bishop
If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.
~ Diana Peterfreund
What else is there to say? You carry grudges and regrets for decades, tend them like gravesite vigils, then even after you lay them down they linger on the periphery, waiting to ambush you all over again.
~ Dominic Smith
Usually the knights would build their castles above a road, just as inns are now built beside the road, the better to plunder the people going past, though admittedly in different ways.
~ Jeremias Gotthelf
there is the potential for flushing an enemy out into the open not by seizing any particular objective, but simply through placing a presence in his rear.
~ Jerry Pournelle
During the summers they traveled widely through the forests, killing men for booty.
~ Jesse L. Byock
Clemmie dropped on him like a jaguar out of a tree.
~ Erik Larson
Cray, I've seen enough turkey shoots to know one when I see it. You set that little fucker up to dangle in the wind like a pro.
~ Andrew Mayne
You stand still, you get caught. You run, you get tired. So.... Learn to lie. Then learn to lie in wait.
~ Andrew Vachss