"The followers must feel besieged." — Umberto Eco
"The followers must feel besieged."
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…
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More Besieged Quotes
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one of 36 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged,…
— Sun Tzu
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How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra.…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold…
— George Downame
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The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but…
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss…
— George Lois
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Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an…
— Christiane Amanpour
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At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever…
— Sean Parker
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Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician,"…
— Blaise Pascal
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