Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
Quotes to Explore
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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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
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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
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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
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I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
Jack Lemmon
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
Edith Schaeffer
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A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
Samuel Lover
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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
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My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
Frank Lane
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'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.
Alex Lifeson
Rush
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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
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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
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That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition.
Kali Uchis
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Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.
Benjamin Wittes
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Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
Muhammad Ali
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
Erica Jong
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I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.
William Wrigley, Jr.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
