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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.
bystanders fiction said
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. Edna O'Brien
bystanders toxic emotion
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. Daniel Goleman
bystanders holocaust remembrance
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
bystanders holocaust remembrance
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
bystanders silence holocaust
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
bystanders friendly levels
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement. Alice Sebold
bystanders killing innocent
There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders. Curtis LeMay
bystanders realizing destruction
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. Curtis Sittenfeld
bystanders internet-access people
I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now. Jhumpa Lahiri
holy righteousness
My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness. Charles Spurgeon
holy-grail black frost
It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful. Alan Bennett
holy sight
When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut. Randy Teeney
holy law lay leave order return rule sites weapons
leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law. Ayad Allawi
holy people places priest work
To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant. James Stephens
holy-prophet way path
Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
holy intentions interior man pour unless until
You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
holy line
We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies. Terry Gilliam
holy involves keeping physical renewal sabbath
Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship. James E. Faust