Ambrose Bierce Quotes

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

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• It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.

  

  Naveen Jain
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  • Technology
  • Always

• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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  • Women
  • Family

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Dad
  • Mom

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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  • Man
  • Words

• We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

  

  Dan Hawkins
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  • Long
  • Career

• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Walks
  • Heels
  • Idealist

• 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

  

  Nancy Travis
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  • Family
  • Comedy

• I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

  

  J. August Richards
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  • Thought
  • Hero

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
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  • Reality
  • Military

• Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

  

  Maika Monroe
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  • Surfing
  • Kiteboarding

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • True
  • Funny

• I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

  

  Finn Jones
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  • Think
  • Intelligent

• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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  • Want
  • English

• My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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  • Friends
  • Husband

• The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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  • Taken
  • Pride

• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Great
  • Power
  • Christian

• Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Saturday

• When a corporation goes into the marketplace to buy back its own stock, it means management thinks the stock is undervalued. This is a smart time to buy.

  

  Nancy Dunnan
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Great