Best Fortresses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!”

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Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God.”

“Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.”

People Different Artist Turns Spite Owners Entity And Off Fortresses

Author:Todd McFarlane

“Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.”

Writing Firsts Mean Problem Bigs Young Advice Personality Being True Temper Academy Pretentious Big Problems Fortresses Young Writers

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Prayer Declaration I will trust in the covering of Your wings, and in the shadow of Your wings I will trust. Be my defense and refuge in times of trouble. I will sing of Your strength. In the morning I will sing of Your love, for You are my fortress. You are my strength. I sing praise to You, for on You I can rely.”

I Can Prayer Morning Trouble Shadow Praise Wings Defense Rely Refuge Declaration Covering Fortresses Times Of Trouble

Author:John Eckhardt

“The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.”

May War Sometimes Nations Fate Position Depends Fortresses

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.”

Wells Made War Principles Risk Conditions Keys Resistance Grants Yield Retirement Wiser Honorable Assault Vigorous Fortresses Capitulation

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A fortress is of no use to cowards.”

Use Coward Cowardice Fortresses

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?”

Thinking War Cases Weapons Rounds Glasses Careful Fragile Defence Fortresses Sharpening Archways

Book:Selected Poems: 1965-1975

Source: Selected Poems: 1965-1975

“There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

“What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?”

Men World Life Should Wish Sleep Existence Lord Enemy Doors This World Wall Arms Eating Lays Misery Prize Dread Foe Wretched Breach Fortresses

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.”

Knows Language Fortresses

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders.”

People Rocks Kings Defense Scripture Trust In God Idols Refuge Guardian Defenders Protector Fortresses False Gods

Book:Observations

Source: Observations

“Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).”

Done Spiritual Strong Grace Divine Evidence Profit Illness Protection Believer Flesh Foolish Refuge Humiliation Grace Of God Fortresses Divine Protection

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here.”

People World Made Country Lasts President Proud Speech Dignity Als Rulers Syria Fortresses Assad Bashar Al Assad

Author:George Galloway

“Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.”

Loses Challenges Mathematics Fortresses

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.”

Made Character Three Audience Particular Materials Battle Elements Gun Including Determine Determined Preacher Sermons Fortresses Ammunition Gunners

Book:The Joy of Preaching

Source: The Joy of Preaching

“With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.”

Able Berlin Breach Fortresses

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.”

“Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.”

Men Humans Generations Divine Civilization Western Ancient Immortality Sensitive Cycles Succession Fortresses Stasis

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”

“Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.”

Known Wall Needed Spots Dozen Blast Firing Cannons Bowling Fortresses Dravid

Author:Shane Warne

“Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me”

People War Helping Hands Fighting Lord Enemy Trouble Mines Goodness Let Me Blessed Fingers Thee Triumph Ashamed Help Me Towers Shields Haste Fortresses Saving Private Ryan

Author:Barry Pepper

“Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.”

Years Long School History East Seats Forty Rome Principal Rejected Roman Empire Intervals Fortresses Alexandria Constantinople

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.”

Thinking Mean Facts Church Type Catholic Peculiar Catholic Church Fortresses

Author:John McGahern

“The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.”

Order Issues Kings Constitution Obedience Ministers Troops Ministry Commanders Fidelity Fortresses Hungary Hungarians

Book:Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

Source: Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

“The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.”

Reality Absolutes Moved Absurd Realism Fortresses

Author:Mason Cooley

“I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!”

Soul Mankind Wall Gratitude Bitter I've Learned Repose Fortresses Crumbling Bitter Truth

Author:Georgia Douglas Johnson

“a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.”

Men Littles Ideas Theory Monsters Beast Shock Toys Aggression Insidious Fortresses Crumbling Tilt Vendors Shuddering Sardines

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan the lovely terraces and villas of Monte Carlo I do not wish to see them. There is nothing beyond the semi-tropical vegetation, the projecting promontories into the Mediterranean, the all-embracing sweep of the ocean, the olive groves, and the enchanting climate! One gets tired of the word beautiful.”

Ifs Beautiful Wish Ocean Tired Climate Lovely Castles Palaces Olives Fortresses Tropical Grove Enchanting Vegetation Terrace Villa Monaco Monte Carlo

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned from it's that you can't trust a guy who lives in a cave-fortress -- Lex Luther, Captain Nemo, Dr. Evil. I'm telling you the list goes on.”

Ifs Thinking Made Guy Evil Numbers One Thing Goes On Relation Lists Captains Drs Caves Luther Public Relations Blunders Fortresses Nemo

Author:David Letterman

“I love you Lord, you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. And my God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold. I will call on the Lord who is worthy of praise. I praise the Lord, my God, my best friend, for giving me the ability, the desire, the love and the guidance that brought me here today. Without you, I would be nothing.”

Source: Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond

“God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.”

God Names Scales Conquer Resolve Fortresses

Book:First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

“Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.”

Together Fiction Fortresses Masonry Partition Plasters

Author:Eamon de Valera

“Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.”

“Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.”

Habit Proportion Modest Threatened Fortresses Sentinels

Author:George D. Prentice

“Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.”

Faces Bird Angry Tiny Our Time Fierce Pigs Eagles Sparrows Fortresses Avengers Predatory Scandinavians Angry Birds Lisbeth Salander

Author:A. O. Scott

“As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.”

Knows Ideas Feelings Action House Differences Accepting Meaningful Radical Daring Sanctuary Fortresses Conceptualization

Author:Audre Lorde

“London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.”

Men Want Whole Cities Streets New York Remains Clubs London Fortresses

Book:The cart and the horse

Source: The cart and the horse

“The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were no undesirable flight characteristics. The directional stability was excellent and, properly trimmed, the B-17 could be taken off, landed and banked without change of trim.”

Taken Inspired Driven Flight Excellent Characteristics Aviation Stability Aircraft Fortresses Undesirable Propeller

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.”

Humans Rights Criticism Islam Human Rights Individuality Originality Medieval Dogmatic Fortresses

Author:Wafa Sultan

“But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.”

“There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.”

Mind Turns Enemy Storm Gates Traitor Infirmity Fortresses Stout

Author:John Adams

“Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.”

Needs Trying Humans Sides Moral Enemy Virtue Study Human Nature Eternal Army Salvation Storm Defense Camps Commanders Theological Cardinals Fortresses Moral Virtues

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.”

Men Ideas Interesting Numbers Effort Behinds Successful Men And Women Significant Manifestation Refuge Scholarship Lively Fortresses Significant Numbers

Book:Economics in Perspective: A Critical History

Source: Economics in Perspective: A Critical History

“Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!”

Earth Beautiful Universe Built Castles Fortresses Citadels

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.”

Men Wells Play Secret Enemy Path Invisible Traitor Fortresses Inaccessible Friends And Enemies

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.”

Ifs Sometimes Seems Sound Magazines Conventions Marvelous New Yorkers Sameness Fortresses Stylish Exactitude

Author:E. B. White

“The enemy and his allies are now at the gates of the capitalists' fortress. Is there any hope that the businessman will finally sense the danger to himself and the system of which he is a part and rise to meet the challenge?”

Challenges Enemy Danger Gates Allies Capitalist Businessman Fortresses

Book:Can Capitalism Survive?

Source: Can Capitalism Survive?

“For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?”

Ifs Should Earth Pleasure Cities Wide Secure Empires Roman Empire Fortresses

Author:Attila the Hun

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