Quotes About Fortress

The free will of the door, as it were. All doors opened in both directions. She could not open the gate of herself a crack and peek out, and expect to still hold the fortress.

The black ice of that dark fortress received the sunlight like a mortal wound.

I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of anything." "Yes, you are, on both counts. You're afraid of everything. In England there are castles with stone walls that go up over a hundred feet, built during a time when it was the strength of your fortress that won battles. Each time I look at you, I marvel at the feat of organic engineering that's allowed you to create such a fortification within a perfect composition of female flesh.

Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest: Since the one enduring fortress, Is the soldier's iron breast. If you'd live unconquered, Quickly arm, and fight the real foe: Every wife an Amazon bred, And every child a hero.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away.

Your defense, first and foremost, is your base.

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.

I think Anfield is a fortress.

One should always be defended against reality.

I dream of a fortress so strong it can lock out the past.

Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.

Depend on it, I will defend this little citadel to the utmost.

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.

The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

He [Zachary] knew now that every kind of life and situation holds somewhere within it for the finding its own kernel of quiet, each small possession of mortal peace a symbol of the eternal fortress and a door to it. He would be able to hold on now through the months of storm, remembering the days of peace at the heart of them to which the way was sure.

Augustus' tomb, once a landmark of the city, had many subsequent incarnations as a fortress, a walled garden, a bear-baiting arena and an opera hall. Today it is derelict, inaccessible; a crumbling tumulus, inhabited by cats, at the centre of a square

y al romper el alba les volamos con mina un baluarte con treinta fulanos dentro, despertándolos de muy mala manera y demostrando que no a todo el que madruga

y al romper el alba les volamos con mina un baluarte con treinta fulanos dentro, despertándolos de muy mala manera y demostrando que no a todo el que madruga Dios lo ayuda.