Quotes of Siege - somelinesforyou

“ One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Nobody would choose to have a disease visited upon them. Still, Parkinson's forced me to make a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality - or embark upon a life journey. ”

- Michael J. Fox

“ Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ”

- Donald Trump

“ I would like to clarify a simple fact here: How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. Al-Nasiriyah cannot be besieged. Basra cannot be besieged. ”

- Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf

“ According to other writers, it is the women who last longest in sieges, the young men who soonest fall into that deadly lethargy that precedes actual death. But the account is accurate enough: that is what a siege is like. Moreover, that is what it is meant to be like… ”

- Michael Walzer
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