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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.
beastly children crimes whatever
Whatever crimes the Proletariat commits / It can't be beastly to the Children of the Ritz. Noel Coward
beastly college rooms
And your rooms at college was beastly - more like a whore's than a man's. Rudyard Kipling
proof
Where's the proof here? I have no facts, just allegations. Robert Keats
proof ifs risen
If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this? David Ricardo
proof wit capable
Wit is a thing capable of proof. Agnes Repplier
proof
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits. Ben Bradlee
proof premises
All proofs rest on premises. Aristotle
proof
The proof will be in the pudding. Let's see what happens.
proof
The proof will be in the integration of the transition.
proof
The proof is in when you look at him, John Brady
proof
The proof is in the pudding: you have to will what you want.