Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.

Ambrose Bierce

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• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Control
  • Gun

• Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Personally
  • Lean
  • Lyrically

• I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Write

• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • True
  • Painting
  • Idea

• I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Done
  • Progress

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Love
  • Identity

• I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Money
  • Power
  • Today

• There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.

  

  Xavi
  • Space
  • Play
  • Looking

• There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Seem

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Charity

• You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Job

• I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you're getting a new color palette to play with. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Color
  • Colors

• Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Planet
  • Terrorism

• Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • God
  • Friend

• I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • World
  • Long
  • Real

• There is increasing scope for the dollar to come under pressure. Once again, we see structural issues starting to work against the dollar.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Pressure
  • Issues
  • Scope

• I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Balance

• Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.

  

  Ambrose Bierce