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  • Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

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

    Siege   Youth   Courtesy  
    Coventry Patmore (1853). “Tamerton Church-tower: And Other Poems”, p.85
  • Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

    Soccer   War   Marine  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and protecting our Muslim brothers and sisters [and] every marginalized person under threat and siege. At the same time, we have to be planning and envisioning where we're going. How we build moments and movements, how we come up with the vision we want of a progressive left - that's what comes in after.

    Brother   Two   America  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • 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.

    Maureen Dowd (2005). “Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk”, p.340, Penguin
  • The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

    Art   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
  • To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

    The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)
  • my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

    Brain   Toxic   World  
    William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated
  • 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.

  • Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

    Art   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
  • It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

    Fire   Soldier   Desire  
    Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.3
  • I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'!

    Guy   Siege   Denzel  
  • "Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He won a British Press Award for his coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege in which 130 hostages were killed. He's covered Russian politics and the war in Ukraine.

    War   Ukraine   Years  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

    Book   Weapons   Siege  
  • American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.

    Sleep   Media   Car  
  • childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.

    Country   Taken   People  
    Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins
  • Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

    Wall   Powerful   Ocean  
  • What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment, facing this siege, facing the tragedy of their families - the poverty of their families. Some of them, they didn't find food to eat. What do you expect from them? In spite of death, our people are still patient. But patience has limits.

    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

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

    Cities   Guy   Siege  
  • During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

    Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

    War   Believe   Winning  
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.

    "Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita" by Paul Molinari, 1993.
  • If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  • I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding. When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.

    Gun   Circles   Air  
    James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.538, CUP Archive
  • This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

    People   Baghdad   East  
  • There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.

    Children   Men   People  
    "Battles rage across West Bank", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2002.
  • Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

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

    Envy   Sorrow   Siege  
    Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics
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