Siege Quotes

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.

They [muslims] are chopping off heads in Syria. Christianity is under siege. I'm Protestant, Presbyterian, and I'm proud of it. Other religions frankly are banding together, we need to band together.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

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

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

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second Amendment, which is under absolute siege.

I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'!

So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

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

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.