Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

Ambrose Bierce

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• There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Always
  • Years
  • Without

• For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Practice puts brains in your muscles.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Practice
  • Fitness
  • Brains

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Choices

• You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

  

  Usher
  • Great
  • Star
  • Personality

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Parents
  • Generation
  • Talk

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• I don't drink coffee.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Coffee
  • Drink
  • Drink Coffee

• The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Christmas
  • Gifts

• Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Fall
  • Communism
  • Pushed

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Loss
  • China
  • Software

• In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Distance

• Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • She

• Cold, delicately as the dark snow,A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and nowSets neat prints into the snow.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Eyes
  • Dark
  • Cold

• 79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • God
  • Believe

• When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

  

  Albert Pike
  • God
  • Nature

• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  

  Ambrose Bierce