Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.
O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.
The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.
Taxes are the sinews of the state.
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Wealth is the sinews of success.
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape.
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat. , Nervi belli pecunia infinita. ]
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.
In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.
