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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.
glowing issues sound
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded. Catherine Helen Spence
glowing female pages
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page. Cathy Guisewite
glowing flames building-up
I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath. David Brainerd
glowing secret skins
I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin. Deepika Padukone
glowing suffering toil
Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive. Edward Everett
glowing warm warming
Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow. Dan Castellaneta
glowing attention pay
If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones. Ricky Gervais
glowing mission revival
Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset. Kevin Starr
glowing males admire
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. Ann Beattie
looks world eternity
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.
looks world way
Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next. Charles Spurgeon
looks may helping
The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.
looks sin
He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.
looks worship ifs
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
looks world environment
Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. Alan Watts
looks plant gardener
A good gardener looks at every plant every day. Alan Chadwick
looks want mental-health
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health. Alan Ball
looks taste devils-advocate
Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow. Al Pacino