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

• Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

  

  William Blum
  • Leader
  • Rice
  • Mafia

• I was gonna live with Todd Gill, another young player, and the general manager grabbed me by the collar, put me against the wall and said, 'You're living with a family. Find one,'

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Live
  • Family
  • Player

• 'You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.' 'What then is a Master for?' 'To make you see the uselessness of having one.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Eyes

• 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