Besiege Quotes

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: / Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. - Bible

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. - Lactantius

We've got two besieged leaders in their own way, and neither one is looking to be a problem to the other, nor does he want the other to become a problem. - David Lampton

We can understand that Israel and America are persecuting us, and seeking ways to besiege and starve us, but what about the sons of our people who are plotting against us, who are following a studied plan to make us fail. - Khaled Mashaal

Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then will I be confident. - Bible

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: / There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: / Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. - Bible

They're not interested in millions. We don't have prisoners. Simply, our athletes are besieged because people want to turn them into merchandise, but they want to play for their country. - Higinio Velez

They could not shake us when they besieged us in Beirut. Now we're in Palestine -- what hope has [Sharon] of shaking us? - Yasser Arafat

These allegations are all news to us. There is way more to this situation than meets the eye and it will all come out during the course of the trial(s). Mrs. Brown is deeply saddened by this apparent conspiracy to besiege her perfect record. - Elbert Hatchett