Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property of B.

Ambrose Bierce

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Success
  • Strange
  • Quick

• I got no hate in me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Got

• I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.

  

  Yuna
  • Good
  • Music
  • Stop

• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Food
  • Healthy

• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Rich
  • More

• Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Poetry
  • Jazz
  • Slave

• I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Great
  • Women
  • She

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Television

• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Heart
  • Sick
  • Temptation

• People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Government
  • Election

• Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing: The bravest are the tenderest,-The loving are the daring.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Truth
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• I wish I could spend more time in Africa. I have this intense sense of complete relaxation and normality here.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Time
  • Wish

• Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.

  

  Bob Marley
  • History
  • Black

• living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

  

  Kathy Lette
  • Dance
  • Teenage
  • Allowed

• Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Come

• The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Love
  • Day
  • Redemption

• Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property of B.

  

  Ambrose Bierce