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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.
triumph chance
Wisdom triumphs over chance. Juvenal
triumph conquer poet
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Abraham Cowley
triumph habit
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. Clive James
triumph defeat what-is-life
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power? Ameen Rihani
triumph world unnecessary
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary David Byrne
triumph endure difficult
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once. Gabrielle Roy
triumph helping conquest
Triumph cannot help being cruel. Jose Ortega y Gasset
triumph exhausted poland
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. Henryk Sienkiewicz
triumph genius common
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
contact direct financial reason services simple
The reason for doing this is simple -- I want more direct contact with the financial services teams, Jeffrey Immelt
contact felt himself ready took
We still think Tyrus will be ready to go. He did all he could do and he felt a little pain, which is going to happen. He took himself out of contact and he'll come back and try to go a little longer. John Brady
contact eastern goals high national priority side theater three
We?re in contact with three national movie chains. One of our goals is to put a movie theater on the eastern side of the property. It?s a high priority goal. E. O. Wilson
contact harder instinct left love meant perhaps somehow
Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled. Nick Frost
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I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me. Gwyneth Paltrow
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What the office does in terms of the pardon process is the pardon petition is submitted with reasons and letters. We contact the sentencing judge and the attorney. We talk to the Department of Corrections, who puts together a package. We do not take a stance. Then the pardon petition is sent to the governor and the Executive Council for a decision.
contact french grew public speaking
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
contact head trying
We're getting into contact with people. We're trying to take a head count.
contact patch safety snow ultimately vehicle
Vehicle safety ultimately comes down to the contact patch between the tyre and the road. And when it comes to snow and ice, we really need a better understanding.