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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.
progressive humans human-activity
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive. Edwin Powell Hubble
progressive credentials ill
Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones. Bart Stupak
progressive-taxation rich economics
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion. Adam Smith
progressive-taxation government support
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.
progressive-taxation people body
For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
progressive-society progressive institutions
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. Doug Stanhope
progressive illness
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. Annette Funicello
progressive cases made
There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. Bill Gates
progressive-society politics movement
The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. Henry James Sumner Maine
instruments performing audience
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative. Bobby McFerrin
instruments
Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. Billie Joe Armstrong
instruments
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. C. S. Lewis
instruments myth
myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth Anais Nin
instruments ill mischief
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. Alexander Pope
instruments
Charkha is an instrument of service. Mahatma Gandhi
instruments
When filming, I like to travel with an instrument. Logan Lerman
instruments torture ragnor-fell
I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps. Cassandra Clare
instruments contempt exposing
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. Isaac Barrow