Under Siege Quotes:

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 Richie

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Want, Siege, Entertainment Business, Under Siege

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

- Frank Herbert

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

topic: Fate, Power, Siege, Inevitable Fate, Under Siege

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.

- Samuel P. Huntington

source: Samuel P. Huntington (2005). “Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, Simon & Schuster

topic: America, People, Community, Under Siege

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

- Mahmoud Darwish

topic: Inspiration, Occupation, Siege, Under Siege

Chance favors the prepared mind.

- Louis Pasteur

source: Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

topic: Inspirational, Softball, Sports, Light Of My Life, Opportunity Knocks

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

- Gary Ackerman

topic: America, Risk, Democracy, Under Siege

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

source: "Under Siege". www.imdb.com. 1992.

topic: Enemy, Invisible, Walks, Under Siege

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

topic: People, East, Hitting, Under Siege, North East

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

topic: Political, Siege, Losing, Under Siege

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

topic: Prayer, Home, Motherhood, Under Siege

The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege.

- Sandra Cisneros

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: People, Community, Mexico, Spaniards, Family Members

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

- Donald Trump

source: "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

topic: Second Amendment, Siege, Amendments, Under Siege

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration, under absolute siege. The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, is killing these energy companies, and foreign companies are now coming in and buying our, buying so many of our different plants and then re-jiggering the plants so that they can take care of their oil. We are killing, absolutely killing our energy business in this country.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, Environmental, Energy, Under Siege

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.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Together, Proud, Siege, Banding Together, Under Siege

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

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

topic: Country, People, Mind, Medieval Times, Under Siege

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

- Darrell Hammond

topic: Fun, Brain, Siege, Under Siege

childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.

- Kate Green

source: Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins

topic: Country, Taken, People, Under Siege

I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.

- Beth Broderick

source: "Obama and the Age of Unreason" by Beth Broderick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

topic: Jobs, Office, Trying, Under Siege

Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.

- John F. Kerry

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Country, Knives, Cities, Under Siege

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

topic: Office, Waiting, Siege, Xerox, Drudgery

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

topic: Sleep, Media, Car, Branded, Authentic Life

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

topic: People, Community, Siege, International Community, Under Siege

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

- Ismail Haniyeh

topic: Government, Territory, West, Gaza, Under Siege

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

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: High Heels, Ebay, Weakness, Under Siege

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

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

topic: Art, Blessing, Cities, Under Siege

I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them once before. Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus. Kronos was still out there somewhere. Olympus was virtually undefended. The demigods of Camp Half-Blood were on our own with a spy in our midst. Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen—which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. Almost forgot that.

- Rick Riordan

topic: New York, War, Fighting, Poseidon, Demigods

We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.

- Frank Miller

topic: Men, Hands, Understanding, Impotence, Under Siege

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

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

topic: Country, Military, Siege, Under Siege

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

- Janice Rogers Brown

topic: War, Moving, Loss, Unapologetic, Moral Depravity

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: War, Believe, Winning, Civilisation, Under Siege