Siege Quotes

Siege Quote of the day

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

They [muslims] are chopping off heads in Syria. Christianity is under siege. I'm Protestant, Presbyterian, and I'm proud of it. Other religions frankly are banding together, we need to band together.

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.

The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.

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 who are under siege.

Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele)

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'!

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second Amendment, which is under absolute siege.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...

David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all

I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to shut my imagination down to get a good nights sleep than it is to prod it to life.

If you're a ghost, " he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.