quotes about Siege
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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 -
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 international community that they will not stop their aid.
-- Ismail Haniyeh -
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.
-- Joe Queenan -
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
-- Julian FellowesSource : "Jolly good Fellowes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2004.
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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 reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
-- Lionel RichieSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
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.
-- Maureen Dowd -
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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Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
-- Richard BaxterSource : 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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Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
-- Richard J. Foster -
I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.
-- Tim LaHaye -
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.
-- Ursula Burns -
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Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.
-- Yasser Arafat -
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
-- Yehuda Amichai -
I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'!
-- Jim Cummings -
The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.
-- Peter PrangeSource : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.291, Simon and Schuster
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