It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege. — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities? — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains? — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die. — Curtis Sliwa Copy Share Image
“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...” — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If… — Sue Sanders Copy Share Image
We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town.… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside.… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A siege is always a hospital - a hospital where mad thoughts abound and where mad things are done; where, under the… — Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox Copy Share Image
There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat. — Walid Muallem Copy Share Image
On the road, I have a siege mentality. I think everyone is against me, so I see danger everywhere. I'm constantly checking… — Alex Brooker Copy Share Image
“No siege engine could equal the destructive power of Zenobia sitting so close.” — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“It was previously understood across many cultures that your thoughts might just be enemy soldiers putting you under siege.” — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
