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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.
usa understanding unity
USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Al Neuharth
usa matter treason
The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there. Kurt Vonnegut
usa people trying
In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity. Eddie Izzard
usa america cost
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost. Arne Jacobsen
usa asking buttons
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?' Dennis Lehane
usa growth world
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. Earl Browder
usage turns universal
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over. Carl Andre
usa personality littles
I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush. Bill Maher
usa haze
La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze. Baltasar Gracian
presidential intimidation crime
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. Benjamin Harrison
presidential justified
Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.
presidential victory bud
The bud of victory is always in the truth.
presidential ifs reporters
If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth. Chester A. Arthur
presidential want strikes
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. Abraham Lincoln
presidential civil-war slavery
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
presidential records telling-the-truth
Stop telling the truth about my record! Bob Dole
presidential needs election
Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election. Dana Perino
presidential special attention
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. Barbara Olson