Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Twice, adv. Once too often.

Ambrose Bierce

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• Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Little Things

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Family
  • Words

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Today
  • Day
  • Crazy

• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Want
  • Hollywood
  • Fulfilled

• We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Important
  • Growth
  • Model

• I always try to live in the moment.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Try

• Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Children
  • Change

• I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Good
  • Model
  • Look

• Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Progress
  • Sex
  • Position

• My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Treat

• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Truth
  • Today

• There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Study

• All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • People
  • Writing

• When we in Russia establish law and order, when the country has an established independent judiciary, I will be the first to go to Brussels and Strasbourg and lobby for the law to be repealed, because we will deal with our scoundrels ourselves, and we won’t need any Magnitsky Law.

  

  Boris Nemtsov
  • Independent
  • Deal
  • Scoundrels

• What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Revolution
  • Direction
  • Opposite

• Twice, adv. Once too often.

  

  Ambrose Bierce