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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.
combination
I am a combination of my entire family. Dionne Warwick
combination possession
You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all. Iyanla Vanzant
combination one-time
One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination. Ginnifer Goodwin
combination stanley
I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley. Patty Loveless
combination take-me
I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me. Pat Summitt
combination payment interest
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly. Martin Feldstein
combination magnet needed
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital. Mahatma Gandhi
combination
I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi. Shaquille O'Neal
combination form results
Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha. Swami Vivekananda
characteristics ifs
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn? Confucius
characteristics chiefs
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. Isaac Asimov
characteristics show-me shows
In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole. Gregory Bateson
characteristics surroundings mankind
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. John Maynard Keynes
characteristics humans
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. Mark Twain
characteristics cruelty meanness
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Samuel Johnson
characteristics chaucer intensity
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. William Hazlitt