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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.
seduction hundred ought
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! Friedrich Nietzsche
seduction assuming sometimes
The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good. Franz Kafka
seduction okay stills
I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living. Laurell K. Hamilton
poor
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor. August Wilson
poor backgrounds harder
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are. Carol Vorderman
poorly pressure stage
We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French. Andy Robinson
poor starters finishers
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher. Alan Kay
poor
What have they done to you, my poor child? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poor-richard reproach
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it. Benjamin Franklin
poor
It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand. Anton Chekhov
poor sad tired
Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him. Walter Mare
poor poverty-and-the-poor
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor. George Moore