Siege Quotes - Page 2

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

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Neptune, England

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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

  Richard Baxter

  Maintenance, Fuel, Sin

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.255

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Envy, Sorrow, Repentance

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• I had in mind going worse than waterboarding. It's enough. We have right now a country that's under siege. It's under siege from a people, from - we're like living in medieval times. If I have it to do and if it's up to me, I would absolutely bring back waterboarding. And if it's going to be tougher than waterboarding, I would bring that back, too.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Mind

  "Hillary Clinton, Sen. Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 7, 2016.

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• Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Fighting, Forever, Together

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Soul, Response

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• For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

  Umberto Eco

  Mind, Machines, World

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• To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

  Frank Herbert

  Fate, Power, Inevitable

  "Dune Messiah". Book by Frank Herbert, 1969.

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• 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 and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'

  Steven Pinker

  People, Calling, Care

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• 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 under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble

  Saint Augustine

  War, Men, Worry

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• 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 the middles of ponds or sent down autumn brooks, holding treasures of acorns, or black feathers, or a puzzled mantis? Let those grassy crafts be listed alongside the iron hulls that cleave the sea, for they are all improvisations built from the daydreams of men, and all will perish, whether from the ocean siege or October breeze.

  Paul Harding

  Ocean, Autumn, Men

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• 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 the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.

  Kalle Lasn

  Sleep, Media, Car

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• For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Body Of Christ, Generations

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• I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Pain, Memories, Book

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• If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, War, Night

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

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• Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

  C. J. Cherryh

  Night, Ideas, Tennis

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• Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

  Joe Queenan

  Book, Weapons, Poor

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• my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

  William Styron

  Brain, Toxic, World

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;
  Still question'd me the story of my life,
  From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
  That I have pass'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Father, Years

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.934

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• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

  Plutarch

  Real, Character, Men

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• He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Art, Strong

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

  Voltaire

  Art, Blessing, Cities

  "Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

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• The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Home, Motherhood

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• Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle . . .

  Shan Sa

  Running, Fate, Tree

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

  Walt Whitman

  Panic, Engagement, Curious

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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