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Quotes About Ambush

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
~ Elliot Chaze
Man will not last. Ambushed by exhaustion, he will have to pay for his too-original career. For it would be inconceivable and contra naturam that he drag on much longer and come to a good end. This prospect is depressing, hence likely.
~ Emil M. Cioran
His safe haven had turned into an ambush.
~ Barry Lyga
As a guerrilla journalist, I participate in the news by holding individuals who are in the news accountable through personal interactions. That involves confronting people in ambush interviews, secretly recording them, or engaging in a conversation with them when they are caught off guard.
~ Laura Loomer
Surprise is the essence of attack!
~ Georgette Heyer
Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?
~ Sarah Mayberry
My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
~ Scott Lynch
My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
~ Scott Lynch
SEAMUS: It's the civilians that suffer, when there's an ambush they don't know where to run. Shot in the back to save the British Empire. Shot in the breast to save the soul of Ireland. I believe in the freedom of Ireland and that England has no right to be here, but I draw the line when I hear the gunmen blowing about dying for the people when it's the people that are dying for the gunmen. With all due respect to the gunmen, I don't want them to die for me.
~ Sean O'Casey
Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performance of the pieties enjoined by the Church.  More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage, stop to pray before cutting his throat; more than once I had seen a noble, after ambushing and despatching his enemy, retire to the nearest wayside shrine and humbly give thanks, without even waiting to rob the body.
~ Mark Twain
There was no tour guide on hand to tell her that in Kashmir nightmares were promiscuous. They were unfaithful to their owners, they cartwheeled wantonly into other people's dreams, they acknowledged no precincts, they were the greatest ambush artists of all. No fortification, no fence-building could keep them in check. In Kashmir the only thing to do with nightmares was to embrace them like old friends and manage them like old enemies.
~ Arundhati Roy
There was no tour guide on hand to tell her that in Kashmir nightmares were promiscuous. That they were unfaithful to their owners, they cartwheeled wantonly into other people's dreams, they acknowledged no precincts, they were the greatest ambush artists of all. No fortification, no fence-building could keep them in check. In Kashmir the only thing to do with nightmares was to embrace them like old friends and manage them like old enemies.
~ Arundhati Roy
If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.
~ Augusten Burroughs
A single rifle flashed in a thicket before the regiment.
~ Stephen Crane
They hid, Bos came over the hill, looked puzzled, and Custer let loose with a bullet that whizzed over his brother's head. Bos turned
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
call out if you need a hand. if she looks like she's going to have you, i'll sneak up behind her and whach her on the head with a stiff rabbit
~ Erin Hunter
If Gray Wing thinks he's going to take us by surprise, then he can think again!
~ Erin Hunter
Sheila, who became pricklier as events pushed her into taking steps further out of her comfort zone, has described the meeting as an "ambush.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
How they wait to ambush us, our true emotions
~ Benjamin Black
I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise.
~ Gillian Flynn
I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal.
~ Gillian Flynn
I worry for a second that she wants to set us up: I am not interested in being set up. I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise. I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I'm obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make u for the fake charm, and then I've basically turned into Liza Minelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.
~ Gillian Flynn
assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and the strike suddenly, on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis.
~ Gregory David Roberts
assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and then strike suddenly, on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis.
~ Gregory David Roberts