#fortress

I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order. ↗

— Ion Antonescu

#fortress #i #order #restore #slaughter

I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do. ↗

— Kit Bond

#anyone #back #believe #care #followed

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. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

#again #built #ceased #death #fortress

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

— Vladimir Kramnik

#berlin #breach #come #could #fortress

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

— Heinrich Himmler

#fortress #give #great #i #like

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #irony #medieval #middle-ages #nostalgia

Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility. ↗

— Toba Beta

#fortress-of-impossibility #need #dreams

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

— Edward Coke

#against #castle #defence #everyone #fortress

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#half #love #same #taken #war

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched