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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.
pity comment misfortunes
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
pity-love words-of-wisdom thank-god
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!
pity figures should
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. Charles Spurgeon
pity instinct just-listen
Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity. Chris Bosh
pity laugh-at-yourself whining
Never take yourself too seriously. Ariana Grande
pity poor relation
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. Arthur Helps
pity speaking writers
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Arundhati Roy
pity disgusting
Pity is always twinged with disgust. Daniel Quinn
pity
Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil Dante Alighieri
subjects
I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history. Bruno Tonioli
subjects picks ifs
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer. Barry White
subjects
Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them. Elizabeth Bowen
subjects known all-things
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject. Arthur Schopenhauer
subjects
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Annie Dillard
subjects throughout wellbeing
The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be. Saint Ignatius
subjects
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. John Donne
subjects
Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. Henry Morton Stanley
subjects
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women Frank Sinatra