H. L. Mencken Quotes
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.H. L. Mencken
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen -
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko -
You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
Rafael Nadal -
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone -
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
Bebe Moore Campbell
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
Irving Kirsch -
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney -
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
Manti Te'o -
Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
H. G. Bissinger -
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson -
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama -
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
Valerie Bertinelli -
Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
Sammi Hanratty -
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
Salman Rushdie
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I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.
Natasha Richardson -
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
Kate Bush -
We've had all the ebbs and flows of any real career. Trust me. We've been at the highest highs and pretty low lows. But that said, we always stay true to who we were. We didn't jump on fads and fashions.
Jon Bon Jovi -
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
Paul Theroux -
First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.
N. Katherine Hayles -
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken