State Of Siege Quotes

#1. During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

Victor Hugo

#2. A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were Costa-Gavras's films like 'Z' and 'State of Siege.'

Paul Haggis

#3. A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege ...

Rachel Cohn

#4. The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

Pliny The Elder

#6. We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

Ismail Haniyeh

#7. For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps reminiscent of black-spotted cauliflower. Better never to have thawed.

Lorrie Moore

#8. The lowest form of war is To attack Cities. Siege warfare Is a last resort ... The Skillful Strategist Defeats the enemy Without doing battle, Captures the city Without laying siege, Overthrows the enemy state Without protracted war.34

Henry Kissinger

#9. I don't think my Dad was ready for me to come back home, either. I think it had been a long time since he was forced to make conversation at the kitchen table over coffee, especially with the person who had been canceling out his vote in every single election since the mid-eighties.

Laurie Notaro

#10. Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

Fay Wray

#12. I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

David Schwimmer

#13. But beauty may be often associated with falsehood.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Estate planning is about communicating with your family. It

Ed Slott

#15. Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn.

Bryn Greenwood