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"That's my attack poodle." by Ilona Andrews?
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American husband-and-wife novelist duoRelated quotes
“They attacked you? (Danger)
No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
(1965) Novelist
Source: Sins of the Night
Ba Jin
(1904–2005) Chinese novelist
Dedication to Emma Goldman
Context: Now my education, life and consciousness are talked about by those who cannot understand what I wrote, what I think, what is my life. They make me up from their subjective imagination and attack me publicly as well as secretly. Because my novels completely obscure my behaviour and ideas, and result in a lot of misunderstandings, my name is related to nihilism or humanism, although I have written a book of over three hundred pages to explain my ideas (this book is very easy to understand and without a metaphysical term). Those who talk about me never read it. They judged my ideas according to one of my short stories, then deduced a variety of strange conclusions and decided which doctrine I belong to. I have been caught in this predicament all these years and cannot get rid of it...
“Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.”
Janis Joplin
(1943–1970) American singer and songwriter
On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
“In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.”
Johan Cruyff
(1947–2016) Dutch association football player
reported in Ramón Calderón's Newsweek.com column http://www.newsweek.com/johan-cruyff-ramon-calderon-barcelona-real-madrid-440545 (24 March 2016).
“My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.”
Ferdinand Foch
(1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.
Message to Marshal Joseph Joffre during the First Battle of the Marne (8 September 1914), as quoted in Foch : Le Vainqueur de la Guerre (1919) by Raymond Recouly, Ch. 6
“Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.”
Sarah Dessen
(1970) American writer
“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.”
Sun Tzu
book
The Art of War
是故上攻伐谋
The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack
Variant: Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
“My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Notes for an announcement, written in advance of the Normandy invasion, in case of its failure, but never delivered (June 1944) http://doinghistoryproject.tripod.com/id17.html; reported in John Gunther, Eisenhower: The Man and the Symbol (1952), p. 41
1940s
Context: Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.