Quotes About Fortress

The fort has already been named the Fortress of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The capital will be named alike after the patron saint and its founder--Petersburg.

The trick could sometimes be her phone, her (and everyone else's) fortress of solitude, and a practiced absorption in it.

An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.

Ehrenbreitstein

He's no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!

A gated community of a historical sort, a fortress of barristers and judges who were also musicians, wine fanciers, would-be writers, fly fishermen and raconteurs. A nest of gossip and expertise, and a delightful garden still haunted by the reasonable spirit of Francis Bacon. She loved it here and never wanted to leave.

In the gigantic and worthwhile struggle for achieving the country's prosperity and people's happiness, our young people have been educated in a revolutionary way and trained spiritually and physically, and have developed into a large, matchless contingent forming a thousand-fold, tens-of-thousand-fold fortress around the Party.

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.

He felt something crumbling inside him. A fortress in the desert of my heart, I should have known it would be a fortress of sand.

For the space of a moon, she fought her conscience, then, beneath the cloak of a moonless night, managed to flee the fortress.

The political and military position of socialism should be further cemented so that it can be an impregnable fortress.

To speak was to open a door into his carefully built fortress, and anything might rush inside.

Reyes la prese in braccio con un mugolio e i due scomparvero nella fortezza; le risatine di Danika erano l'unica prova della loro presenza.

Everyone who lived in this fortress—and godsdamn, there were a lot of people, the number seemingly growing by the day as his friends each hooked up with their "one and only" (gag)—was fluent in Gideon Speak and knew to believe the opposite of whatever he said. "Fine

Al norte de la ciudad se alza una espectacular construcción, Sacsayhuamán, la fortaleza sagrada, con sus tres hileras de altas murallas zigzagueantes, el Templo del Sol, su laberinto de calles, torreones, andenes, escaleras, terrazas, sótanos y habitaciones, donde vivían con holgura cincuenta o sesenta mil personas. Su nombre significa «halcón satisfecho», y como un halcón vigila el Cuzco.

The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

You do build in darkness if you have faith. When the light returns you have made of yourself a fortress which is impregnable to certain kinds of trouble; you may even find yourself needed and sought by others as a beacon in their dark.

A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing, Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.

Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.

Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.

Morrison suspected he had no idea how many people worked behind the scenes of his "simple" life, because they always scurried like mice when they saw him coming. To the Toll, a fortress manned by dozens upon dozens of people appeared to be mostly deserted.

Even if you were to discover it, I don't imagine you could simply shin up a drainpipe and jemmy open the bathroom window. Fort Knox is most likely a bus shelter in comparison.