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Quotes About Ambush

One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt
~ Frank Herbert
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
~ Sun Tzu
What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush?
~ Mike Wallace
As you ripen, you'll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.
~ Andrew Solomon
Say what you will, but you're never prepared for the surprise attack.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's Pearl Harbour, sir. But with muffins.
~ John Birmingham
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
~ Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor
I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams: expert hunter of himself, every minute in ambush.
~ Antonio Machado
The men of the period of corruption are witty and calumnious; they know that there are yet other ways of murdering than by the dagger and ambush--they know also that all that is well said is believed in.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
~ Daniel Boone
The Sand People are easily startled, but they will soon be back. And in greater numbers.
~ Ryder Windham
Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.
~ Felipe Esparza
Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian) No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It's when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.-Kyrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Halt Halt," said Gilan stepping out into the open.
~ John Flanagan
Then her mother – as skilled in the art of ambush as most mothers are – startled her with her furious, echoing roar.
~ John Flanagan
Morton and the rest of the conspirators, around eighty in all, came up the main staircase
~ John Guy
It was Robert Poley who unhooded Will, much later in a candlelit room with an arrow slit that show only blackness but admitted the stink of the Thames.
~ Elizabeth Bear
When Angela Davis came to new jersey to do a speaking engagement on my behalf, the new jersey prosecutor's office ambushed her and her party, harassing them until the moment they left the state.
~ Assata Shakur
But in the last message I got right before they ambushed his ass he basically said, David, you are a dreamer and a disgrace and you'll never get your shit together, and I'll always fight everything you believe in, but I'll also never love anyone more than you, so if anything happens to me just keep going the way you are.
~ Gary Shteyngart
When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
~ Harper Lee
Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.
~ Kenan Evren
Prime area for something nasty to wait for prey. Bring it. I've got time to wash blood off my boots. ' - Evalle
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It was a bitter thing. You might give up lawing, but some no-account would pop up from the underbrush of the past and shoot you in the back.
~ John Shirley