#sinews

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#break #forced #gave #greater #hath

The sinews of war are infinite money. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#money #sinews #war

Money is the sinews of love, as of war. ↗

— George Farquhar

#money #sinews #war

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#habit #iron #leads #sinews #us

Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#libya #new #place #security #should

He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him. ↗

— Leslie Marmon Silko

#move #sinews #skullduggery-pleasant #business

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#equality #exercise #give #great #great souls

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#discourse #good #good company #sinews #very

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#i #moon #movement #seen #sinews

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#like #literature #money #sinews #those