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
Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Sturmhond, a privateer from the second book in the series, Siege and Storm,' is probably my favorite character. He's pure confidence and… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand… — Tim Huelskamp 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
They [muslims] are chopping off heads in Syria. Christianity is under siege. I'm Protestant, Presbyterian, and I'm proud of it. Other religions… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third… — Sun Tzu 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
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
I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city… — David Farr Copy Share Image
“Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic… — Patricia Cori 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
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken… — Kate Green Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama… — Beth Broderick 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
Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the… — Isaac Yeffet Copy Share Image
Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by… — Killer Mike 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
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called "The Siege." I did a lot of research with the FBI… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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