Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Find

• You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • You
  • Living

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • War
  • Moral

• When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Women
  • Experience

• I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Simple

• I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dishonest

• Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

  

  Edith Schaeffer

• A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Baby

• Zuvörderst nämlich wird eine Regierung nicht Leute besolden, um Dem, was sie durch tausend von ihr angestellte Priester, oder Religionslehrer, von allen Kanzeln verkünden läßt, direkt, oder auch nur indirekt, zu widersprechen. … Daher der Grundsatz improbant secus docentes.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

  

  Frank Lane
  • Home
  • Brain

• 'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush

• My experiences have shown me that when an opportunity bigger than you comes along and you feel unprepared and doubtful, it is important to permit those emotions and let that energy drive you and inspire you to move forward.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Energy

• It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Faithful

• Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fire

• If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • World
  • Men
  • Single

• Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

  

  Ambrose Bierce