Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. — Joe Queenan 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
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
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
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
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
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
“It was previously understood across many cultures that your thoughts might just be enemy soldiers putting you under siege.” — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.… — Yoav Gallant 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
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
A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were… — Paul Haggis 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
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
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
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy… — Samuel Johnson 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 America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“On 20 November, front-line troops got 500 grams of bread per day, factory workers received 250, and everyone else 125 (that is,… — Andrew Roberts 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
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
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. — Mahmoud Darwish 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
During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege. — Victor Hugo 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
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
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
“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...” — Peter Prange 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
“...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...” — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
'Shadow and Bone' was the first. Siege and Storm' was challenge and surprise. Ruin and Rising' was the opportunity to see a… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege. — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
![“In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and protecting our Muslim brothers and sisters [and] every marginalized person under threat and siege. At the same time, we have to be planning and envisioning where we're going. How…” quote by Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/eve-ensler-1402_america_in-america-we-have-to-really-be-working_1871483.jpg)
