Drawbridges Quotes

#1. Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#2. Poverty is a fortress without drawbridges.

Albert Camus

#3. He watched groups of children in the play yard move their lips, raise and lower their teeth like white drawbridges, dance their tongues in the ritual mating of speech.

Stephen King

#4. We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

Nick Clegg

#5. The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Jules Verne

#6. God answers every prayer, Rabbi Schumann once told him, years ago. Mostly His answer is 'no'.

Paul Russell

#7. Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

Rajneesh

#8. Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

Elizabeth I

#9. You know what this means?
Everyone does, but nobody answers.

Chris Pavone

#10. If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its malfunctions. And if we can really figure out the retina, perhaps we will have a shot at figuring out the vastly more complicated brain.

Sebastian Seung

#11. I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.

A. J. Cook