It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape. — Alexander Ostrovsky Copy Share Image
How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful — Mian Mian Copy Share Image
Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress -… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Look what [Chinese] are doing, they're building a massive fortress against everything. A massive fortress in the South China Sea. And yet… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it… — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which… — Barry Pepper Copy Share Image
What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber'… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders,… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going… — Abdallah II Copy Share Image
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Archer, is there a servant girl in my fortress you haven't taken to bed? I announce you're leaving and within minutes two… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“When the world is storm-driven and the bad that happens and the worse that threatens are so urgent as to shut out… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us… — Montgomery Schuyler Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul,… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by… — George Galloway Copy Share Image