Fortress Quotes - page 3

In order that the ruler and the general manager can build everything for you concerning the fortress, carry out this work on the fortress now. The reputation of this fortress shall not be diminished. (Shulgi)
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. View quote
Abdallah II
Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress. View quote
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do. View quote
Kit Bond
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. View quote
Winifred Holtby
You cannot believe what you are saying.' 'Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry. View quote
Umberto Eco
The best possible fortress is-not to be hated by the people. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it. View quote
Cicero
Beyond this village, other villages; beyond this abbey, other abbeys; and after the fortress, more fortresses still. And each of these castles of stone and each wooden hut has its structure of fixed ideas or flimsy, ill-based opinions superposed above it within which fools stay immured, but the wise find apertures for escape. View quote
Marguerite Yourcenar
The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases. (Margaret Atwood)
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? View quote
Margaret Atwood
Not in hewn stones, nor in well-fashioned beams, Not in the noblest of the builder's dreams, But in courageous men of purpose great, There is the fortress, there the living State. View quote
Alcaeus of Mytilene
You find most journalists now are on all these social networks. They're all about creating... they want a direct relationship with their audience, in a way that politicians have been very loathe to do. They don't want to come down to the masses. They still want to be in that fortress, in that ivory tower where they can lecture down to people. They haven't really adapted to this two-way communication. View quote
Heather Brooke
Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend. View quote
Richard Matheson
"But when the philosopher heard, a day or two afterwards, that the fortress of virtue had already been subdued, he began to give a large scope to his desires. His appetite was not of that squeamish kind which cannot feed on a dainty because another hath tasted it. View quote
Henry Fielding
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. View quote
George Lucas
It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
[I] launched a new offensive against the fortress of painting. First, white thinned out in linseed oil as a general base. Second, color the entire surface lightly by applying very large areas of different colors that swim into one other and that must remain free of any effect of chiaroscuro. Third, a drawing, independent of and substituting for the unformulated tonal values. Then, at the end, some bass notes to ward off flabbiness, not too dark, but colored bass notes. This is the style that connects drawing and the realm of color, a saving transfer of my fundamental graphic talent into the domain of painting. (Paul Klee)
The defenders were hunted down and killed. Even when they tried to surrender, they were killed, for their fortress had resisted and that was the fate of garrisons that showed defiance. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
Here, in this filthy stench of powder smoke, he felt at home. Other men learned how to plough fields or to shape wood, but Sharpe had learned how to use a musket or rifle, sword or bayonet, and how to turn an enemy's flank or assault a fortress. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
My car has a new fortress. It will scoff at the hurricanes this year. Scoff like unto a scoffing machine. View quote
Brian Clevinger
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! View quote
Philip Gibbs