Besieged Quotes

36 quotes by 31 authors

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a… — Miguel de Cervantes
There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be… — Sun Tzu
How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted… — George Downame
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything… — George Lois
Some people accused me of being pro-MuslimÂ in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in… — Christiane Amanpour
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they… — Sean Parker
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I… — Blaise Pascal
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basraâ€¦ Now even the American command… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve… — George Elliott Clarke
I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge. — Vincent Price
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless,… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. — Alexander Pope
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging… — Wendell Berry
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of… — Terry Pratchett
Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to… — C.S. Lewis

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