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
  • Very
  • Make

• 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

• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  

  Byron White
  • Law
  • Moral
  • Choices

• Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

  

  e. e. cummings

• Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Men
  • Known
  • Cleverer

• One trend I always go for is nautical: stripes, navy, rope knot belts, gold buckles.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Gold

• It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

  

  Kanye West
  • Truth
  • Awesome
  • Ridiculous

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

  

  Ambrose Bierce