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strong war distance
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
strong team home
Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team Becca Fitzpatrick
strong lying home
Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.
strong wells true-north
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free. Barry Pepper
strong ideas hungry
I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create. Barry Manilow
strong reading mean
I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it. B. D. Wong
strong military war
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness. B. H. Liddell Hart
strong war military
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
strong military successful
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
queens differences mary
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers! Bill Shankly
queens listening littles
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic. Carrie Underwood
queens first-love special
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. Antonia Fraser
queens kings thinking
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load. Aimee Mann
queens science years
[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm... Charles Kingsley
queens kings couple
I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments. Charles Dance
queens real character
That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false. Blaise Pascal
queens world opinion
Opinion is the queen of the world.
queens world use
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]
gay george jackson kept noise paul planner planning telling traffic
Paul George (principal planner with the Jackson Planning Department) kept telling them the noise and the traffic (from the bar) would not be a problem. That is why I think it is a gay issue. Chris Sullivan
gays judge meet people
People judge gays before they meet them. They're really good, as you can see. Matt Williams
gay thinking people
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
gay thinking years
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those. Bill Condon
gay judging wanted
Above all, God wanted us to love others. We have to love each other and get on with each other, she added. It's not up to me to judge anybody.
gay thinking people
As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry, I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love
gay liberation gay-liberation
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. Bette Davis
gay careers challenges
In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov! Bernadette Peters
gay men knowing
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.