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“To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble”

Knows Men World Doe War States Worry Pressure Noble Complaining War Of The Worlds Coward Know Me Polish Friction Under Pressure Siege Splendour

Author:Saint Augustine

“What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?”

Hard Remains Curious Engagement Panic Siege

Book:Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."”

Two Fall Christ Prayer Mets Thousand Mountain Jew Unhappy Ruins Crush Hiding Buried Literal Jerusalem Illustration Hunted Recess Hiding Place Siege

Author:Frederic Farrar

“Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.”

Love Is Pleasure Kindness Pool Love Is Like Reservoirs Siege

Author:Yehuda Amichai

“When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.”

Hard Lays Desperate Siege

Author:Julian Fellowes

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

Inspiration Occupation Siege Under Siege

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

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

Ifs America Democracy Risk Flags Threatened Jerk Siege Under Siege

Author:Gary Ackerman

“For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.”

Ifs War Together Taken Trouble Periods Add Shooting Ireland Incidents Riot Bombing Assassination Robbery Kidnapping Dublin Siege

Author:Frank Delaney