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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.
civilized-nations aberration individualism
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism. Albion W. Small
civilized-nations trials should
Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require. Jonah Goldberg
mars south-dakota dies
Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here. Bill Kurtis
mars done environment
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve. Arne Jacobsen
marshall voices wrenching
Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female. Kate Christensen
mars
I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing. Alessandra Ambrosio
mars world mark
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? Ann Voskamp
mars astronomy foreign-policy
The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question. David Letterman
marshall might
Here's an interesting thought about what might result: a good-better-best approach, with Macy's the 'good', Bloomingdales the 'better' and Marshall Field's the 'best,'
marshall strong
Marshall has a really strong team. We didn't play badly, they were just that much better.
mars treat
Mars doesn't treat you very well, for the most part. So this is a very challenging thing to do." ()