Quotes About Fortification

So, suspecting that Nero had a contract on her, she got herself Mithridatized against the poisons that would have been available to her son's underlings. Like Mithridates, Agrippina eventually died by more mechanical methods as her son (supposedly) had assassins slay her, thus providing us with the small but meaningful lesson that one cannot be robust against everything. And, two thousand years later, nobody has found a method for us to get "fortified" against swords.

forcing us to add an extra layer of protection

and when he did come they had no walls to stop him)

Two of the underground buildings were each about the size of half a dozen football fields and were heavily reinforced with concrete walls about six to eight feet thick. The Iranians were obviously fortifying them against a possible air strike. The tunnel leading down to the buildings was also built in the shape of a U instead of a straight line—a common tactic to prevent missiles sent into the mouth of a tunnel from having direct aim at a target on the other end.

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you

No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong as the men who defend it.

The wall has more moods than Mad King Aerys, they'd say, or sometimes the wall has more mood than a woman.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

protects like a stack of telephone books.

Also, I am sure Aren was a way for him to protect himself

The Maginot Line was miles and miles of concrete walls and obstacles and weapons that had been constructed along the German border after the Great War to protect France.

In my opinion, it is important to have a stable defence.

The wooden wall is your ships.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

the defences where a creek runs

Oak bark, spider silk, ground moss, saltweed— grip close, bind tight, hold fast, close up, bar the door, lock the gate, stiffen the blood-wall, dry the gore-flood.

It is fortification from the inside out that is wanted—the kind accomplished only by those prepared to do batter for a piece of emotional ground that must be taken again and again before it is actually secured.

We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy.

Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

Jock put his shoulder to the framework and the whole thing crumbled inward with a crash of glass. Rotten as touch-wood, he said. This place would never stand a siege.