Siege Quotes

70 quotes by 58 authors

There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that… — Hanan Ashrawi
What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward… — Paul Harding
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth… — Samuel Johnson
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble… — Saint Augustine
What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains? — Walt Whitman
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds… — Frederic Farrar
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege. — Yehuda Amichai
Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be… — Lionel Richie
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. — Mahmoud Darwish
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. — Gary Ackerman
For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to… — Frank Delaney
American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in… — Kalle Lasn
Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege. — Yasser Arafat
Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a… — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the… — Ismail Haniyeh
We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we… — Ismail Haniyeh
I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth. — Tim LaHaye
For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented… — Steven Pinker
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf

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