Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.
Man with frailty is allied by birth.
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic. . . when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.
Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.
What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.
A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
There [in Allied] was depicting London in the war, as well, and doing that in a way where you see something that you don't normally see, which is how hedonistic it was. In reality, that's what was going on. But, all of it worked.
I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.
Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.
A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives. . . that is the miracle of marriage.
No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beauteous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name in lovely April's name did hide, And leave it there, eternally allied To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
Comedy is allied to justice.
