H. L. Mencken Quotes
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.H. L. Mencken
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
Naomi Campbell -
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. Lewis -
I've found that musical theater is my passion.
Samantha Barks -
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. Bell -
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
Barry White -
I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
Patricia Polacco
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D. H. Lawrence -
The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.
Lady Gaga -
My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
Hamza Yusuf -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
Jack Nicklaus -
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
Earl Warren
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
T. D. Jakes -
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. Bradley -
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman -
The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.
Saint Francis de Sales
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A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.
Jeff Lindsay -
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Mark Twain -
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde -
There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.
George A. Romero -
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
H. L. Mencken