#fortress

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

#again #built #ceased #death #fortress

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#fortress #give #great #i #like

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#half #love #same #taken #war

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

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. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#hero #his #learned #learned man #life

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

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. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#assistant #count #day #even #fortress

Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#become #believe #continue #fortress #forward

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