#attack

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. ↗

— Jane Austen

#attack #cannot #dictated #fast #i

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter. ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

#butter #defend #guns #only #ourselves

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#many #ny times #opportunity #people #see

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. ↗

— Otto Hahn

#breathing #devices #dying #easier #fellows

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party. ↗

— Michael Laws

#bigger #get #headline #likely #nothing

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#moving-forward #progress #war #men

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#course #hurt #i #me #people

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#circumstances #crowd #forced #i #i can

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. ↗

— Lord Acton

#bear #cannot #contrary #development #discussion