Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

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 is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Charles Dickens

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

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.

Charles Stross

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

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Alan Parker

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

David Mitchell

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

David Niven

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

Byron Katie

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

Cesc Fabregas

If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal

Cary Fukunaga

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

Darren Shan

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Bible Bible

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Nicolas Chamfort

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Matt Maldre

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Aleister Crowley

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

Bible Bible

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Gustavo Kuerten

I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.

Terri Morrison

I feel they're spending money foolishly on a lot of different issues.