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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.
honor fickle opinion
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
honor albums robotics
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics. Alan Parsons
honor sacred noble
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. David McCullough
honor loses ifs
If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless. William Shakespeare
honor dues no-point
The due of honor in no point omit.
honor customs ifs
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.
honor criticism sometimes
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. Billy Joel
honor culture celebrate
A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not. Bill Johnson
honor balance insane
Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it. David Weber
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
enemy thee harm
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
enemy causes violent
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
enemy may
Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be. Aiden Wilson Tozer
enemy democracy capitalism
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. David Korten
enemy i-realized persons
Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
enemy nasty said
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. Camille Paglia
enemy-of-progress enemy progress
Free time is the enemy of progress Casey Neistat
enemy perfect
The perfect was the enemy of the good, Tom Curley