Ambrose Bierce Quotes
An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
Quotes to Explore
-
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
-
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
-
I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
-
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
-
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
-
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
-
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
-
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
-
Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
-
I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
-
If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
-
And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
-
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
-
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
-
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
-
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
-
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
-
I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
-
I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.
-
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
-
True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.
-
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
-
An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
