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  • When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

    Blow   Encounters   Arms  
    Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.2211, e-artnow
  • We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain for the individual, the same mad global ambitions. And they will be dealt with in just the same way. Like all fascists, the terrorists can not be appeased. They must be defeated. This struggle will not end in a truce or a treaty. It will end in victory for the United States, our friends and for the cause of freedom.

    Struggle   Ambition   Mad  
  • Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

  • Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

    Loss   Giving   Accepting  
  • Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games be held in peace, in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce. Athletes of the 80 national Olympic committees, show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You can show us a world we all long for.

  • Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

    Iraq   Truce   Katrina  
    "Congress Will Shift Focus to Defense Bill, Iraq". www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2005.
  • We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.

    Moral   Kind   Tradition  
    "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.
  • When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

    War   Enemy   Wish  
    Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu Art of War”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
  • Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?

    War   Order   Land  
    William Shakespeare (2015). “King John”, p.72, Courier Dover Publications
  • It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

    Memories   War   Cancer  
  • This is the heritage of Catholic education ... one which those who went to Catholic schools always recognize in each other, members of a secret society who, when they meet, huddle together, temporarily at truce with the rest of the world, while they cautiously, untrustingly, lick each other's wounds.

  • A truce to idle phrases!

    Phrases   Idle   Truce  
    Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.22, Sparklesoup LLC
  • There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

    Justice   World   Tense  
    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.62, Best Books on
  • Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

    Nuts   Guy   Trying  
    John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Penguin
  • I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

    Wise   Found   Enjoy  
  • One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

    Song   Nice   Musical  
  • I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.

  • The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true.

    Real   Mean   Practice  
  • Islam does not mean peace. It means submission. The word "peace" for Muslims has a different meaning. Peace, according to Muslims, will be achieved when everyone submits to Islam. Muslims can't offer peace. They can offer truce. In their minds, peace will be achieved only when you are subdued and they are the masters. Any other arrangement is not Islamic.

    Islamic   Mean   Mind  
    Source: myislam.dk
  • A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

  • The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

    Zero   Fear   Home  
  • Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her.

    Trying   Said   Truce  
    Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.335, Delacorte Press
  • The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

    Men   Heaven   Ignorant  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4144, Library of Alexandria
  • Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

    Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics
  • Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.

  • Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

    Reality   Way   Made  
    Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.295, Cambridge University Press
  • Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

    Peace   Forever   Sound  
    Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.123, Library of Alexandria
  • The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

  • TRUCE, n. Friendship.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.230, University of Georgia Press
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