Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson -
I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
Harmony Korine -
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
Bayard Taylor -
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
Nader al-Masri -
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
Carlos Santana Santana
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
Walter Lang -
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
Walter Hill -
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
Barry Ritholtz -
While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.
Kim Il-sung -
America is the paradise of lawyers.
Lawyer -
We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard
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I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
Anne Bancroft -
His speech is a burning fire.
Algernon Charles Swinburne -
'Crutch is coming! Crutch! The old horseradish.'
Anton Chekhov -
There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It's not going to work.
Dave Ramsey -
On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.
Donald Trump -
I have to do a better job of picking the spots where I want to attack and picking the right moment when I need to attack.
Kristaps Porzingis
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Donald Trump is trying to build a wall. I'm trying to burn walls down and build more bridges.
Janelle Monae -
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
Barack Obama -
The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.
Scott Adams -
Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
Ambrose Bierce