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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.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
words-of-wisdom causes obvious
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one. David Hume
words-of-wisdom desire use
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire? Carlos Castaneda
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
words-of-wisdom records trials
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
dying easier crosses
Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it. Aiden Wilson Tozer
dying eternity minutes
Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness. Darren Shan
dying burning awful
No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.
dying earth today
If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow. David Suzuki
dying disease chance
There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami. David Nabarro
dying tough comedy
Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy. Cary Grant
dying good-health very-good
I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health. Edith Sitwell
dying desire world
All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world. David Brainerd
dying faces accepting
What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again? Audre Lorde