Siege Quotes

“...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...”

“...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...”

“Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.”

“David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all”

“If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one”

“At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days of Amundsen and Nansen, and the leather remained tough and inedible.)”

“It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.”

“Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.”

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“And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a citywhose walls were constantly under siege....”

“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...”