Besieged Quote by Anonymous

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their…

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

— Anonymous

“[...] because in that faggot town only a man like him could prevent the tragedy.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He…

— Rumi

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.”

— John Vaillant

Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure…

— William Butler Yeats

“When besieged, I’m calm as a baby. When all hell breaks loose, I’m collected and cool.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be…

— George Downame

“If we are blinded by the razzle-dazzle of the limelight and can't even bring a little depth into our story, we must recognize that…

— Erik Pevernagie

“In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer!”

— Sharon Kay Penman

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf