Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.Ambrose Bierce
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
Adam Braun -
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
Irwin Shaw -
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
Tamron Hall -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle -
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein -
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
Ira Sachs -
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
Edgardo Osorio -
I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
Kangana Ranaut -
Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
Karan Singh Grover -
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
Irvine Welsh -
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
Larry Kramer -
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Iris Murdoch
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In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance and the scope for democracy - democratic control - will be resolved through an even stronger role of the European Parliament.
Mario Monti -
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years.
Alex Berenson -
There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce