Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

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• In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Education

• They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Done
  • Me
  • Army

• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Work
  • Play
  • Listen

• When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Lost
  • Identity
  • Now

• I'm easy to hate.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Hate
  • Easy

• I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Education
  • Daughters

• Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Leadership

• The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Unimportant

• I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Place
  • Characters
  • Influences

• The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Couple
  • Playing
  • Breakthrough

• There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Political
  • Creation

• With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Fear
  • Darkness
  • Emptiness

• I don't play basketball as good as I used to and I hate losing, so I'd rather not be seen in public until I make sure my A game is up.

  

  Cam'ron
  • Hate
  • Basketball
  • Losing

• I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Myself

• It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

  

  Lena Olin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Prudence is the virtue of that part of the intellect the calculative to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

  

  Aristotle
  • Moral
  • Right
  • Virtue

• Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  

  Ambrose Bierce