Quotes About Fortresses

#1. We hide behind our assumptions and preconceptions as if they were fortresses - shutting people out. I love to witness the fall of a preconception; the way it renders you naked

Karen Hitchcock

#2. The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

Edith Hamilton

#3. Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

David Byrne

#4. Geralt knew that bonnet and that feather, which were famed from the Buina to the Yaruga, known in manor houses, fortresses, inns, taverns and whorehouses. Particularly whorehouses.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#5. Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassailable, like masculine fortresses. It's like how the 9/11 firemen were venerated.

Lynn Coady

#7. it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#8. But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do not have anything to fear now concerning internal wars or their neighbors invading France.

Frederick The Great

#9. The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

Lewis Howard Latimer

#10. You Englishman, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and commands you through me, Joan the Maid, that you quit your fortresses and return into your own country, or if not, I shall make such mayhem that the memory of it will be perpetual. - Joan of Arc

Susan Banfield

#11. It's possible that aliens are
building blancmange fortresses on a distant planet millions of light
years away. It could be true even though we have no evidence it is happening. It's completely irrational to say it is not happening when you can't be at least reasonably sure.

Lewis N. Roe

#12. There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

Joseph Stalin

#13. As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

Audre Lorde

#14. Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Still like the Fortresses shakes?

Mark Mackey

#16. Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour - when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.

Matthew Reilly

#17. What a difference from words on a page, or images on a video screen. Surrounding him was one of the oldest fortresses in England, where men had died defending the walls, and something was happening.

Steve Berry

#18. The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

Lajos Kossuth

#19. I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,
But rather,
Build within thy own soul
Fortresses!

Georgia Douglas Johnson

#20. How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

Mian Mian

#21. But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

Vladimir Kramnik

#22. Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

A.O. Scott

#23. I saw the misadjusted dials and the whirling gauges and the bubbling green fluid and the electricity arcing around, and a story laid out for me, my sorry self alchemically transmuted into power and robots and fortresses and orbital platforms and costumes and alien kings.

Austin Grossman

#24. Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#25. Their lands as a result of our actions (and inactions), our governments will build ever more high-tech fortresses and adopt even more draconian anti-immigration laws. And, in the name of

Naomi Klein

#26. A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

Marcel Proust

#27. Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

Stanislaw Ulam

#28. Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.

Francisco Pizarro

#29. A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

Martin Luther

#30. Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

George D. Prentice

#31. You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.

Winfield Scott

#32. The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

Heinrich Himmler