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Quotes About Encirclement

Hayat böyledir, tam da bizi hapseden nesnelere faydas?z bir ÅŸekilde sar?l?r?z.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
Forces from Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia encircled the town.
~ Wendy Pearlman
My love always surrounds everyone around me.
~ Debasish Mridha
The second encirclement would be a disaster, and it would win me commendation and international fame. It would leave my brain full—as it is now, here on the Toloa's deck—of visions of pleading faces and ruined bodies, of phantom agonies that scour the parts of my consciousness where I once held hope for the future, like the pains that plague a maimed man where a limb's been cut away.
~ Kathleen Rooney
este modo, los rusos describieron una trayectoria envolvente cuyos flancos se cerraron en tenaza en las proximidades de una ciudad llamada Tannenberg. Ambos
~ Ken Follett
What "complete victory" really meant in Leninist thinking, it now transpired, was not the complete building of socialism in the USSR; it was the safety of Soviet socialism from external danger, from military intervention by the hostile capitalist encirclement.
~ Robert C. Tucker
My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.
~ Martin Landau
The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
~ Franz Halder
We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It's everywhere. It's right on top of us. It coils around us like a snake. We're all inside it. It's already swallowed us whole.
~ Jonathan Stroud
parapets…I felt the battlements close in, enfolding
~ Ben Macintyre
how they had managed to get close up all round within snapshooting
~ Ernest Dunlop Swinton
Everything ended in silence. The beasts and spirits heaved a deep breath, broke up their encirclement, and returned to the depths of a forest that had lost its heart.
~ Haruki Murakami
The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited gestures, the Americans have treated it like one. Their policy has been one of encirclement.
~ Martin Jacques
And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I was frightened by the thought that it could not escape its encirclement.
~ Milan Kundera
Closing in a noose around her neck, the sound blocked the outside world – its air, its light.
~ Steven Erikson
If I am a thorn in your mattress, he will be a cage of briars around you.
~ Storm Constantine
At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city, Constantinople, and the Ottoman Turks can encircle it.
~ Norman Davies
It was as if a boa constrictor had wrapped itself around my torso and was squeezing me into the shape of a meal.
~ James Patterson
Chess teaches the Clausewitzian concepts of "center of gravity" and the "decisive point"—the game usually beginning as a struggle for the center of the board. Wei qi teaches the art of strategic encirclement.
~ Henry Kissinger
At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.
~ Antony Beevor
When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.
~ Robert Kennedy
Soft and warm you encircle me, into the cave of my ear your lips infuse a mantra, over and over to coax the well awake.
~ John O'Donohue
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
~ Antoine De Saint Exupery