Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Social
  • Corruption
  • Activism

• Everything I make starts very personally.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Everything
  • Make
  • Very

• Only votes talk, everything else walks.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Everything
  • Talk
  • Only

• Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Women
  • Used
  • Mere

• ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • High
  • Better
  • Smart

• I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Meeting

• A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Fun
  • You
  • Like

• I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Good
  • Children
  • Start

• You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America

• When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature
  • Reality

• I had never heard of Walter Young before, and I do not expect to hear from him again.

  

  Conrad Black

• 'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,Thinking your face so strangely young . . . 'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Thinking

• In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Physics
  • Valuable

• I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

  

  Connor Jessup
  • World
  • History
  • Law

• I'm very good at forgetting people.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Good

• In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Long
  • Real

• He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hand

• A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Live
  • Family
  • Christian

• A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

  

  Carol Zaleski
  • Treatment
  • Hamlet
  • Shakespeare

• ...as you'll know, the word 'fuck' sort of is used quite a lot in my house. Now, that's not to say, I think to say 'fuck this' or 'fuck you' a lot more, so it should be entered into the English language, because it has a lot more impact when you say, 'I fucking hate this thing.'

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • House
  • Hate
  • English

• Simplicity is a state of mind.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Mind
  • Simplicity

• So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.

  

  Stéphane Charbonnier
  • Talk
  • Islam
  • Everything Else

• Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

  

  Ambrose Bierce