Business is a combination of war and sport.
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity.
Do you like my working persona?" Saiman asked softly. "An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn't you say?" Aren't we pleased with ourselves. "Are you Chinese, Japanese, half-white? I can't tell, your features are neither here nor there. " "I'm inscrutable, mysterious and intellectual. " He forgot conceited. "Did you have any trouble getting that ego through the door?" Saiman didn't even blink. "Not in the least.
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.
How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I think that's what real life feels like.
Kurt Vonnegut wasn't a chatty guy, but when he spoke, it was always clear and very funny, in the way that he wrote, in a very specific kind of combination of word groupings and expressions that lived somewhere else.
Sorry,” he said, his voice thick and gruff. “It’s morning and you’re sitting on me. That’s a combination meant to bring any man down.
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
I like getting involved with the people and finding out exactly what is happening. Does it have to do with the property, the home, the individuals, or a combination of everything? To me, that's always been my main goal, to find some information, to bring some type of resolution to help the people out with a piece of property that is having a major problem or a haunting. That's always been my passion and still is to this day when getting involved with anything, to try to find answers and help people.
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.
That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the top of your head. It's the combination of that meticulousness and the power of the prose and, I think, the depth of the characterizations and the risks that I've taken with language that give the books their clout. And that's where I get pissed off at a lot of my younger readers.
You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.
Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world. . . Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.
