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When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?


Russell Hoban


#attack #attacked #being #chance #got

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.


Sam Donaldson


#age #attacked #born #bought #december

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


Joseph Goebbels


#butter #defend #guns #only #ourselves

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

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.


Michael Ledeen


#arabia #attacked #before #countries #important

A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.


Cormac McCarthy


#death

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.


Jack Adams


#attacked #attacks #effect #enterprise #gilbert

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.


Peter Benchley


#attacked #been #close #creatures #enough

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.


Todd Burpo


#been #bible #relative #truth

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.


Dario Fo


#based #become #being #consensus #democratic






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