Famous quotes containing the words siege, engine and/or construction:
“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“The will is never free—it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car—it can’t steer.”
—Joyce Cary (1888–1957)
“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)