Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence -
The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
Adam Cohen -
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper -
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
Beau Willimon
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
Sam Altman -
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
Larry Holmes -
Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
B. R. Hayden -
For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
Macaulay Culkin -
Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
Abraham Lincoln -
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
H. R. McMaster -
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar -
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
Salman Rushdie -
This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
Ed Wood
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I would bring a $100 bill, and I would say, 'Alright, first person' - and everybody has their iPhone - and I would say, 'First person to find in the Constitution the phrase 'separation of church and state' gets this $100 bill'... And you know what - and everybody knows that, right? - that phrase isn't in the U.S. Constitution. It's nowhere.
Jeffrey C. Mateer -
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
My idea is that players need to recover first, train later.
Claudio Ranieri -
Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Ambrose Bierce