Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Fear
  • Doubt

• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Color
  • Red

• I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Time
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Group

• If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Long
  • Business
  • Name

• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Worse
  • Attack

• The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Together
  • Help

• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nonsense

• There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Educated

• Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Together
  • Fear
  • Sorrow

• Pair up in threes.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Pair

• I have a lot to weigh: the basis of public service, which I've given my life to, a career choice. And most importantly, what I want to do as a parent. I know something about the White House. That, I assume, is one of the reasons that President-elect Obama would like me to serve. But I also know something about what it means to a family.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• Every wishIs like a prayer-with God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • God
  • Prayer

• It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

  Anita Brookner
  • Selfish

• Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Up
  • Running

• I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Metallica
  • Black Album

• The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Long
  • Childhood

• No matter what happens, I'm going to protect my kid.

  

  Mindy McCready
  • Happens
  • Protect

• The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • World
  • Country
  • Politics

• Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

  

  Ambrose Bierce