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  • In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

    Brother   War   Cities  
  • A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

    Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.909, Delphi Classics
  • The enemy and his allies are now at the gates of the capitalists' fortress. Is there any hope that the businessman will finally sense the danger to himself and the system of which he is a part and rise to meet the challenge?

    Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund
  • Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

    Pain   Circles   People  
    Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
  • 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.

  • I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

  • I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned from it's that you can't trust a guy who lives in a cave-fortress -- Lex Luther, Captain Nemo, Dr. Evil. I'm telling you the list goes on.

    Thinking   Numbers   Evil  
  • Do not look at your weakness or your small size; look at the Lord and His greatness that He will demonstrate through you. You now have the authority to tear down the strongholds of the enemy and to make New Zealand a fortress of righteousness.

    Greatness   Enemy   Tears  
  • The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

    Kings   Order   Issues  
    Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.16
  • I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

  • His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we’ve lost our way.

    Distance   Fall   Men  
  • Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

    Pain   Rebel   Flags  
  • The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

  • Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

    Wish   Saint   Firsts  
  • Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!

  • Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

  • All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here.

  • London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

    New York   Men   Cities  
    Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”
  • Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

    Running   Wall   Pain  
  • Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.

  • Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom; A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud; The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain; And now, when the heavens are propitious for action, Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

    Spring   Rain   Past  
    Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”
  • In America, we're being hurt very badly by China with devaluation, with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don't tax them, with building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn't be doing.

    Hurt   Sea   America  
    Source: time.com
  • Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

    Pigs   Eagles   Bird  
  • The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

  • In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

    Hero   Men   Order  
  • Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

  • Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

  • Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.

  • A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

    Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc
  • He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

    Art   Riding   Fencing  
    Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.144, Routledge
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