“Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity”
Father James Keller
“A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.”
William Butler Yeats
“After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.”
Bible
“Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.”
“We're not doing the Towering Inferno - Titanic version, ... two policemen who survived the towers' collapse and were rescued from the trade center ruins after 22 hours.”
Michael Shamberg
“It's not the towering sail, but the unseen wind that moves the ship”
Proverb
“If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”
Jack Handy
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