“The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.” MayBigsRealizingDangerBrotherWallStormGatesCastlesFalse PromisesCastle Walls Author:Wayne LaPierre
“Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.” StatesAgeNationsWealthPowerfulSeaLandCenturyMaterialsWallOceanGunEuropeTradeTrainWesternLocalsShipsAgentsOpponentsVisibleEmpiresTransformedGlobesSailingCastlesMobileReducingMonarchsSiegePotencyTerritorialSailing ShipsWestern EuropeWarshipsOrdnanceCastle Walls Author:Peter Padfield
“The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.” LongStoriesLightFallAnswersDyingWallGloryBlowFlyingShakesLakesLeapEchoesCastlesSummitSplendourSnowyCastle Walls Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson
“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!” LittlesStoriesWallKingsCourtRoundsSakeMortalsTemplesCrownsBoresFarewellCastlesHollowPinsSad StoryCastle Walls Author:William Shakespeare
“Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.” PersonsHelpingWallPromiseSalvationDeedsWoundsInvisibleShockBitesCastlesSlapFoilsCastle Walls Book:Second Glance: A Novel Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.” FacesWhiteCuttingHairWallBirthKissingStormAwakeClimbsYearningThickCastlesThornsDo It YourselfCastle Walls Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.” MayBigsAmericaRealizingLibertyFireSecurityDangerBrotherWallReturnPromiseRight NowHistoricalStormGatesCastlesBargainsBasementsAmerican LibertyFalse PromisesCastle Walls Author:Wayne LaPierre
“And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls Just leave me to despair Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye The love we knew, ain't worth another try” IfsWorldWantTryingDreamLastsSongDiesAsksAirSkyShareWallMountainDespairAskingGreenTiredForestsHillsDreams Come TrueLeaving MeCastlesByeI'm TiredGood ByePopular SongCastles In The AirCastle Walls Author:Don McLean