Ambrose Bierce Quotes

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

Ambrose Bierce

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• I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Way
  • Respect

• Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Facts
  • Away
  • Ignoring

• Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Other
  • Misfits
  • Among

• In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Jewish

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sad
  • Stories
  • Anger

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Government
  • Wants
  • Presence

• You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

  

  Randy Travis
  • You
  • Artist
  • Project

• Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Nothing
  • Follow

• Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trust
  • Leader
  • Employees

• Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Me
  • Film
  • Magic

• As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Game
  • Political
  • Politics

• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • People
  • Family
  • Success

• There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Man
  • Amazing

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle, but I should never be tempted to do it; for I could not like him, if he were ever so handsome, and ever so charming, in other respects; I should hate him – despise him – pity him – anything but love him. My affections not only ought to be founded on approbation, but they will and must be so: for, without approving, I cannot love. It is needless to say, I ought to be able to respect and honour the man I marry, as well as love him, for I cannot love him without.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Love
  • Man
  • Respect

• I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Years
  • Lot
  • Squash

• Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

  

  Michael Gerber
  • People
  • Business
  • Constant

• Question your answers, Truth has no anger

  

  Ed Roland
  • Truth
  • Question
  • Anger

• He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce