Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

To love is to undress our names.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

No man may be completely invulnerable.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s either Gena or my mother or some other person.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

A crisis unmasks everyone.

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.

I don't really have a talent. I can't sing or act or dance or perform, those talents. All I can do is be myself.

I love music. It's always been a big part of my life, and I don't think people should, you know, judge me by my last name instead of listening to the album. I think the music definitely speaks for itself, and it's a great album.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.

I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there's certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.

Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

When are you at your most defenseless?