Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven 

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Pieces
  • Only
  • Outdoors

• My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Good
  • Peace

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • True
  • Crime
  • Stranger

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Me
  • Finish
  • University

• I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Country
  • Continue

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• My mother read me biblical stories at night.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Me

• What you guys want, I'm for.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Want
  • You
  • Guys

• I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Age
  • Play
  • View

• Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Song

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

  

  Max Lucado
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Long
  • Way
  • Heaven

• Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven 

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Heaven
  • Miracle