Quotes About Citadels

#1. Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#2. All but Death, can be Adjusted -
Dynasties repaired -
Systems - settled in their Sockets -
Citadels dissolved . . .

Emily Dickinson

#3. Things perish. Gods have passed.
But song sublimely cast
Shall citadels outlast.

Theophile Gautier

#4. Courage was mine, and I had mystery,
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery:
To miss the march of this retreating world
Into vain citadels that are not walled.

Wilfred Owen

#5. Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?

Evelyn Waugh

#6. Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Jonathan Sacks

#7. Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

Andrew Sullivan

#8. The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

Colin Powell

#9. I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

Rachel Johnson

#10. There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

Sun Tzu

#11. Make love your religion, and all the citadels of man-made religious conflicts shall disappear from the face of earth once and for all.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. Imagination is a storm of emotions that has the power to sweep citadels into the wind.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#13. But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state.

H.G.Wells

#14. The trend for rewilding our cities is growing. It's positive, it enlightens, it's widespread, and it helps. We need to retrofit and reimagine cities as planet-friendly citadels. They're our hives and reefs. Sea mussels aren't the only animals living in individual shells that are glued together.

Diane Ackerman

#15. Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil.

Don Burr

#16. I wish to be certain that I am converted myself, before I leave my converted brethren to convert heathens.

Joseph Benson

#17. I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

David Sedaris

#18. Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

#19. As long as it makes you happy. For the rest of my life, I will do whatever it takes to ensure it. As my wife, you will not want for anything. What you desire, I will provide.

Renee Vincent

#20. You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.

Danny Meyer

#21. The cunning waste their pains;
The wise men vex their brains;
But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,
With belly full, he wanders free
As drifting boat upon the sea.

Cao Xueqin

#22. I love monsters.

China Mieville

#23. Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Nicolas Chamfort

#24. The direct market has evolved into a machine that is very good at selling corporate-owned superhero titles published by two main companies: DC and Marvel.

Chris Roberson