Preemptive Strikes Quotes & Sayings

An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done. — Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

The news, when it leaked out, caused outrage and horror in Rome. The Republic was never so dangerous as when it believed that its security was at stake. The Romans rarely went to war, not even against the most negligible foe, without somehow first convincing themselves that their preemptive strikes were defensive in nature. — Tom Holland

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean. — Robin Wasserman

I think that's an incredibly overwhelming reality that is really at the basis of how we're going to deal with this. Looking at the film, people will say, "Oh yeah, you're criticizing the police." I say, "No." — Oren Moverman

I used to think there was no time like the present. I used to think there was no time but the present. Now I know better - or different, anyway. In the end, the past will always be there. The past is all there is: the present never sticks around for long enough, and the future is anybody's guess. In time, you always have to hand it to the past. It always gets you in the end. — Martin Amis

I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all. — Jacob Artist

was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still, — Oscar Wilde

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken. — Ne-Yo

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace." — Winfield Scott

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator. — Lemony Snicket