Related Quotes
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.
wages gains virtue
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
wages world pay
Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages. Charles Spurgeon
wages praise
Your praises will become your wages. William Shakespeare
wages commodity machinery
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. David Ricardo
wages profit farmers
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
wages comfort currency
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. Benjamin Harrison
wages pay salary
Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay! Susan B. Anthony
wages reconstruction workers
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. Ed Pastor
wages trends slumps
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers. Jared Bernstein
anarchy chaos vendetta
This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos. Alan Moore
anarchy beat both coexist control design discipline extreme freedom henry human james life necessary poets suggest work
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable. Mark Helprin
anarchy woodstock whole-life
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it. Billie Joe Armstrong
anarchy brutal despite freeing gotten hard iraqis justify liberation life perspective
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. Timothy Noah
anarchy became create victim wants
She (Sonia) wants to create anarchy in this country. She became a victim of her own actions. Uma Bharati
anarchy breathing characters people
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos. Deborah Moggach
anarchy wave utopia
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence. Aldous Huxley
anarchy dominated drove hairy life lines physical towel younger
There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class. Adam Rapp
anarchy life-is abstinence
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now! Anton LaVey