Siege Quotes
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We remain essentially a nation under siege.
— Theodore C. Sorensen
I have seen hell, it is a great city under siege.
— Joe Abercrombie
A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege ...
— Rachel Cohn
My knowledge of biochemistry told me the chemical composition of the potion (ingredients, strickly confidential)...
— Carlos Malvar
... what makes us monsters is our need to be saints
— Carlos Malvar
A siege is a deadly dull.
— George R R Martin
Our real self is under siege by our anti-self.
— Lisa Firestone
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
— Richard Baxter
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
Yields?" Lord Rowan laughed. "When Mace Tyrell laid siege to Storm's End, Stannis ate rats rather than open his gates.
— George R R Martin
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
— Gary Ackerman
I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.
— Tim LaHaye
A siege is an act of war.
— Noam Chomsky
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.
— Leigh Bardugo
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
— Richard J. Foster
Now that was a good pussy.
— Carlos Malvar
Dammit," Dale cussed. "I was kinda hoping Congress got ate.
— Rhiannon Frater
It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.
— Cassandra Duffy
Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.
— Walid Muallem
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
— Yehuda Amichai
Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.
— Yasser Arafat
When will the deathOf Death ever come?
from The Siege — Visar Zhiti
All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege.
— Miles Cameron
The Encyclopediathe advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment ... — Peter Prange
To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.
— Frank Herbert
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
— Coventry Patmore
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
So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?
— Rick Riordan
What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu
— Tad Williams
She bore down upon him like a glittering siege engine.
— Terry Pratchett
He'd only taken the black after he'd lost an arm at the siege of Storm's End.
— George R R Martin
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
— Virginia Woolf
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
— George F. Will
I've seen what you truly are," said the Darkling, "and I've never turned away. I never will. Can he say the same?
— Leigh Bardugo
And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a city
whose walls were constantly under siege.... — Roger Bonair-Agard
People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
— Curtis Sliwa
It's a lovely day and we're under siege. People are trying to murder us." Her eyes shone with excitement. "Isn't it marvelous?
— Ilona Andrews
Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.
— Leigh Bardugo
Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir. — Terry Pratchett
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
— John Flanagan
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.
— Samuel Johnson
How do you have an armed siege without guns?' 'She used Olympic standard archery equipment,
— Livia Day
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune. — William Shakespeare
O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?
— William Shakespeare
How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
We stand at a crossroads. Idolatry looms. Traditional values in jeopardy. Truth under siege and virtue abandoned.
— Gregory Maguire
Peggy snorted. Zombies rise and we're still doing paperwork.
— Rhiannon Frater
The homemade pie has been under siege for a century, and surely its survival is endangered.
— Janet Clarkson
You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.
— J. F. Lawton
Fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.
— Terry Pratchett