1570 Quotations with Action.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: PALM, n. A species of tree having several varieties, of which the familiar "itch ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a sligh ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial.
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- 126. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is po ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
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- 129. Ambrose Bierce: REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our rel ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satis ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite w ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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- 133. Thucydides: The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit ...
- 134. Isaac Newton: Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit ...
- 135. George Eliot: Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the st ...
- 136. Fran Lebowitz: If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient eviden ...
- 137. Jonathan Miller: Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from su ...
- 138. Jeremy Bentham: Every law is an infraction of liberty.
- 139. Oscar Wilde: Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- 140. Charles Lamb: Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction ...
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