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war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. Charles Caleb Colton
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? Charles Dickens
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
duration scratches ends
If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex as the scratch-reflex can be termed a reflex of double-sign, for it develops excitatory end-effect and then inhibitory end-effect even during the duration of the exciting stimulus. Charles Scott Sherrington
duration life picked trying
Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different. Jessica Simpson
duration sides bed
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. Barbara Kingsolver
duration fine intensity
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity. Aristotle
duration emotion loved-ones
The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself. Elinor Glyn
duration life time
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time. S. Jay Olshansky
duration limits minimum operation plans required royalty size
There are no minimum royalty rates, there are no enforcement provisions, there are no required inspections, there are no limits on the size or duration of leases, no requirement that operation plans be approved, Jeff Bingaman
duration favors fortune intensity pays
Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration Baltasar Gracian
duration expectation game hockey last minute overtime tonight win
When you get a 5-on-3 in the last minute of the game and a 4-on-3 for that duration in the overtime (3:11), your expectation is to win the hockey game. We didn't do that tonight and that's disappointing. Mike Sullivan
terrible formidable sensations
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
terrible companion acknowledge
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing. Alan Ball
terrible touched trusted
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. Elizabeth Kostova
terrible
I have a terrible sense of direction. Elizabeth McGovern
terrible
Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess. Bobby Valentine
terrible being-true
Some things are too terrible to be true. Bob Dylan
terrible blogs deserve
I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success! Ashley Madekwe
terrible bores
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore. Auberon Waugh
terrible war
It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.