Siege Engines Quotes & Sayings

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that. — David Lange

We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth
RESPONSIBILITY. — Herbert Hoover

A life with extreme challenges is a life on pause. — Ben Tolosa

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value. — Seth Godin

alive who have read the three complete volumes of the ageless epic La Araucana, in rhyme and old Spanish. — Isabel Allende

Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ... — Frontinus

With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than with prayer? — Sorin Cerin

What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems ... The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

I have experience dressing me as a 6, a 12, and more. And when you go above a size 12, you don't lose your love of fashion. — Melissa McCarthy

I am talking about misery and all of its implications. — Juan Rulfo

philip closed his eyes and stood upright and immobile in the middle of the silet room. In that moment the roar of battle, the creaking wood of the siege engines, the furious galloping of the horses all faded away; he simply stood stock still and listened to his son's breathing. — Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?"
"Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir. — Terry Pratchett

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey's ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren't spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey's ass. — Caitlin Moran

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books. — Connie Willis

Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! — Charles Dickens