#fortress

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#fortress #frontiers #held #long #must

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#cannot #constitution #cornerstone #fortress #forward

All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking? ↗

— Mary Balogh

#heart #love #love

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#brow #built #cannot #demolished #force

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#berlin #breach #come #could #fortress

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #irony #medieval #middle-ages #nostalgia

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#fortress #ideas #newspapers #our #these

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#his #i #solitude #superman #thinking

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

— Martin Luther

#church #fortress #goodly #prayer #strong

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#different #each #entities #fortress #image