Encirclement Quotes

#1. Germany's siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to 'storm out of the fortress' to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary's hatred of Serbia; Russia's deep fear of Germany; France's vengeful chauvinism; and Britain's ferocious Germanophobia.

Paul Ham

#2. And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I was frightened by the thought that it could not escape its encirclement.

Milan Kundera

#3. At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

Antony Beevor

#4. When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.

Robert Kennedy

#5. Everything ended in silence. The beasts and spirits heaved a deep breath, broke up their encirclement, and returned to the depths of a forest that had lost its heart.

Haruki Murakami

#6. It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#7. No. I've no time to waste. Winter's coming.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#8. What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

John Shelby Spong

#9. If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.

Dave Brat

#10. Much good may "honour" do them when they're dead

Kate Atkinson

#11. A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.

Steven Tyler

#13. I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

Irvin D. Yalom

#14. Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

#15. Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God's help.

Elizabeth George

#16. A name was nothing but a sound others used to get your attention, or to mean you in their mind.

Alexes Razevich