Fortresses Quotes
98 quotes by 90 authors
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the…
— Joseph Addison
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
— David Byrne
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In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the…
— Milarepa
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and…
— Winfield Scott
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When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
— Antisthenes
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When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built…
— Edith Hamilton
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
— Margaret of Valois
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most…
— Montgomery Schuyler
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We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer…
— Ryan Holiday
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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
— Epictetus
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How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful
— Mian Mian
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...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a…
— Deepak Chopra
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The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.
— Lewis Howard Latimer
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It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the…
— Vivian Reddy
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their…
— Vladimir Putin
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Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement
— Fethullah Gulen
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It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress…
— Heinrich Himmler
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