Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

• Country
• Power
• Fool

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• I think it's important that things are flawed.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Think
  • Things

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Down
  • Lucky
  • Getting Older

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Child
  • Find

• Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Memories
  • Books
  • Kid

• Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Pretty
  • Walking
  • Meditation

• I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Stage
  • Respond
  • Strongly

• It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Silence

• I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It's called 'Jesus Wept.' And I love this statue because it's a statue of Jesus with his head in his hand. And his sadness and his pain at some of the choices that are made here - that just breaks his heart.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Heart
  • City
  • Hand

• Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Power
  • Fool