Sinews Of War Quotes & Sayings

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them. — Leon Bridges

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles. — Francois Rabelais

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war. — Francois Rabelais

Endless money forms the sinews of war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritability. It became difficult to think clearly and you needed to think clearly to work out how to survive the next day, how to get food. You were sure you could still work if you could find work, and you could look for it if only you could eat. But how were you going to get food, for yourself, for your children, for your wife or husband, for your parents? There were simply too many people within those walls for the calories that were let in. How were you to get food when there just wasn't enough of it? What were you going to have to do? With hunger of this severity came fatigue, a weakness that transcended tiredness and permeated your sinews and bones. As your limbs got ever lighter, they felt progressively heavier with each new day. — Elliot Perlman

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Everyone should play like Adrian Peterson. This guy does everything full speed. Pro Bowl - promoting himself for MVP. — Peyton Manning

The sinews of war are infinite money. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for. — Christopher Hitchens

Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her today? "In a girl's voice lies temptation - a known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body." She doesn't believe it yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. Marry, raise children and honor her family. Spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence. — Margaret F. Rosenthal

Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war. — Walter Raleigh

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage. — William Shakespeare

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. — Larry Hagman

Embrace this," she snarled, and flung a hidden dagger from her vambrace at his head. — Sarah J. Maas

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. — William Shakespeare

There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is the sinews of love, as of war. — George Farquhar

Lies can destroy, but not create. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine. — Steven Tyler

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war. — Plutarch

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace." — Winston Churchill

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. — Ernest Hemingway,

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. — Samuel Butler