Quotes About Fortress

The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.

In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.

The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.

To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.

You are my strong tower Shelter over me Beautiful and mighty Everlasting King You are my strong tower Fortress when I'm weak Your name is true and holy And Your face is all I seek

KREMLIN in your language means fortress inside a city, but most people don't know this.

There is a plan." Jace slid his stele into his belt and rose fluidly to his feet. "Simon's idea for how we get into Sebastian's fortress. We're going to do it." Simon stared at him. "Seriously?" Jace retreived his jacket. "It's a good idea" "But it's my idea," Simon said. "And it was good, so we're doing it. Congratulations.

training in the Fortress of the Winds, I'd never developed a full appreciation for the power of disguise. Oh, I understood it on an intellectual level—it was Brother Yarit's disguise that had allowed him to take Brother Jawal by surprise in the Trial of Pahrkun—but I'd never felt it.

A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around Mrs. Thatcher's memory that was rooted in theories about economics. They did this because economics is the only language that wonks understand.

It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.

There is no sharper spear than wisdom.There is no larger shield than faith.There is no better fortress than truth.There is no greater strength than hope.There is no higher power than love.

For a man's house is his castle.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

The duke nodded, his beautiful face full of catlike satisfaction. "But since then I have conquered a sterner fortress." His eyes mocked me. "And now I enter it freely.

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.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.

They were exiles, but Hob provided a type of protection once they settled in. By playing up their strangeness, the way a slave simpered and acted childlike to escape a beating, they evaded the entanglements of the quarter. The walls of Hob made a fortress some nights, rescuing them from the feuds and conspiracies. White men eat you up, but sometimes colored folk eat you up, too. She

sedition enters the fortress and our troops rise in insurrection.

God is my strength and my fortress. I will rejoice in God my Savior.

Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity.

It was hard to tell whether things were deteriorating or whether it was just the usual baseline of craziness, made more vivid by the fact that they'd all hunkered down in a fortress to await the collapse of civilization.

The Last Invocation At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house, From the clasp of the knitted locks—from the keep of the well-closed doors, Let me be wafted. Let me glide noiselessly forth; With the key of softness unlock the locks—with a whisper, Set ope the doors, O Soul! Tenderly! be not impatient! (Strong is your hold, O mortal flesh! Strong is your hold, O love.)

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unreachable moats.