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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.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wings done my-fair-lady
I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before. Alan Jay Lerner
wings people television
In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel. Chris Carmack
wings creative fantasy
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for. China Mieville
wings giving soul
Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings. Caitlin Kittredge
wings guitar imagination
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. Carlos Santana
wings dancer ballet
you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers! James Patterson
wings bird trembling
The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. William Shakespeare
wings feet tin
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. Kurt Vonnegut
faults
He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him. Charles Spurgeon
faults virtue
Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults. Edgar Cayce
faults virtue glorify
Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.
faults innocence innocent
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. Edmund Waller
faults world persons
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault. Charles Dudley Warner
faults credit talent
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them. Charles Marion Russell
faults debt lenders
It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender. Bernard Levin
faults critics shows
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults. Benjamin Franklin
faults may suspicion
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.