Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.
Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.
A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.
I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
Attack in all directions!
With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades.
Fear attracts attack.
Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.
A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.
If you are sad, If you are heartbroken , make yourself up , dress up , add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.
My sister's asthmatic. In the middle of an asthma attack she got an obscene phone call. The guy said, "Did I call you or did you call me?"
Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.
Sarcasm is always perceived as an attack.
The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack