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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.
palaces intrigue hesitation
Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me. Anibal Cavaco Silva
palaces poison court-jester
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Danny Kaye
palaces wages prison
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages. Christopher Love
palaces construction pantheon
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? Petrarch
palaces aim sewers
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. Mark Twain
palaces hollywood midnight
The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics! Keith Thibodeaux
palaces needs need-you
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse. Henry David Thoreau
palaces strategy
You cannot make a cheap palace. Ralph Waldo Emerson
palaces united-states los-angeles
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. Leonard Maltin
shackled
Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.
shackles twilight-edward prisoner
Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner Stephenie Meyer