Attacked Quotes

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Destroyers
  • Carriers

• Vindication? Oh, my God, absolutely. When you're attacked mercilessly for illogical and unpatriotic reasons, to be honored by Emmy voters in this way is just phenomenal.

  

  Neil Meron
  • God
  • Voters
  • Honored

• My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Dad
  • Knows
  • General

• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked but America's self-confidence.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • America
  • Confidence
  • Gulf Coast

• I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. But I beg you to believe me; I have never done an act of espionage against France. Never. Never.

  

  Mata Hari
  • Believe
  • France
  • Good People

• Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Evil
  • Justice
  • Attacked

• I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Controlled

• ... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Defend
  • Attacked
  • Common Law

• When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ideas
  • Tired
  • Attacked

• During a mass extinction, vast swathes of the tree are cut short, as if attacked by crazed, axe-wielding madmen.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Tree
  • Madmen
  • Extinction

• Stop fearing being attacked.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Stop
  • Attacked
  • Fearing

• The German nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in its conviction that it had been wrongfully attacked and was therefore justified in fighting. the Peace Treaty of Versailles did not seem to be for the purpose of restoring peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Peace
  • Purpose
  • Fight

• I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Christian
  • Condemned
  • Attacked

• My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media. Let me make it clear. There are two wars in Iraq. The first one was absolutely necessary and entirely justifiable. Saddam Hussein had attacked and invaded Kuwait, a sovereign independent state, it was a blatant act of aggression, and action was justifiable and necessary. I have no problems with that at all.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Media
  • Aggression
  • Independent State

• It is good to be Compared with the best player Pele. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.

  

  Neymar
  • Style
  • Player
  • Attacked

• In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.

  

  Eddy Merckx
  • Different
  • Wind
  • Race

• Trump has never sacrificed anything for this country, and in fact, he has attacked people who have. It just makes me sick to my stomach when I see him attacking the mother of a fallen hero or John McCain. It just makes me sick to my stomach that this guy thinks he's prepared to be commander-in-chief.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Mother
  • Trump
  • Hero

• Getting vehemently attacked by homeopaths for not having any formal qualifications in homeopathy is hilarious considering that, in the UK (and in many other countries), no qualifications whatever are required to practise or research homeopathy.

  

  Edzard Ernst
  • Research
  • Hilarious
  • Homeopathy

• I‘m a free woman and always will be, i send my sisterly regards to all the victims of abject acts who would have felt attacked by this column inLe Monde, and it is to them, and them only, that I offer my apologies.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Free
  • Victims
  • Regards

• We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet.

  

  Joseph Stefano
  • Nudity
  • Attacked
  • Convey

• Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Idea
  • Granted
  • Attacked

• Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.

  

  Ernie Chambers
  • Community
  • Safety
  • Television

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