Best Fortresses Sayings
98 Fortresses quotes by 87 unique authors
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On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from…
— Blaise Pascal
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There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
— Joseph de Maistre
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It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
— Alexander Ostrovsky
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Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that…
— Todd McFarlane
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Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions…
— Helen Steiner Rice
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I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if…
— Christopher Bond
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All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be…
— Mary Balogh
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Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only…
— Abdallah II
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The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A fortress is of no use to cowards.
— Thiruvalluvar
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
— Edward Coke
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In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
— Heinrich Heine
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
— Martin Luther
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The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was…
— George Lucas
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There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
— Regina Brett
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Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
— Richard Matheson
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He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.
— Lord Byron
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Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound…
— Che Guevara
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It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all…
— Martin Amis
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Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that…
— Muriel Barbery
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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up…
— Gena Showalter
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