Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. — Joe Queenan 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
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
England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune. — William Shakespeare 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Empress Dowager, the man continued, was much distressed, and had given orders to stop the fighting; the Boxers were fools... Then… — Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many… — James Mattis 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
American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling… — Anna Reid Copy Share Image
“One of the most oft-quoted records of the siege, scribbled in pencil over the pages of a pocket address book, is that… — Anna Reid Copy Share Image
It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege. — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
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