Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Ambrose Bierce

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My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

Jesse Ventura

NeverOfficeYearsGotFourOnce

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

John W. Gardner

PeopleSocietyKindSome PeopleJust

I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn't know what he was doing; I couldn't see the tricks.

Stephen Merchant

LiveTimeJoyLaughterLaughComedy

Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.

Trisha Yearwood

SouthernPeanutsThing

Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.

Shirley Temple

PeopleMeNewspaperOldWellClaim

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

Robin Hayes

LiveTodayAmerican DreamPeople

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

Mikaela Shiffrin

WinningOne ThingOlympicMedal

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

Loudon Wainwright III

FunnyMeSongInterestingYouKind

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

LoveTouchFriendlyAmusementMalice

While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person.

Chelsea Manning

HistoryWorldDataCreditPerson

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

Cindy Sheehan

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I feel like every time I tweet, I lose money.

Pete Davidson

TimeMoneyFeelLoseI Feel Like

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