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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.
civil-war tasks lasts
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. Abraham Lincoln
civil-war unions slave
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
civil-war purpose almighty
The Almighty has His own purposes.
civil-war liberty world
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
civil-war events confession
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
civil-war kind mercy
My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good. Robert E. Lee
civil-war christ poor
I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.
objects ifs
What would you do if money was no object? Alan Watts
objects overload places provide relaxation technology
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology. Thomas P. Campbell
objects shells sweep washed
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. Henry Grunwald
objects seen
One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890. John Burnside
objects
Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
objects
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects. Hasso Plattner
objects
Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed. Erwin W. Lutzer
objects dies
I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object. Julie Harris
objects
Don't object so much, you'll live longer. Michael Nesmith