H. L. Mencken Quotes
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
Quotes to Explore
-
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
-
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
-
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
-
Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
-
Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
-
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
-
Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
-
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
-
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
-
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
-
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
-
My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
-
When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
-
My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
-
I wanted to develop a hypnosis show that no-one had ever seen before, so I made it very topical and interesting. I've created a UFC fight night every night on stage, where I hypnotise twenty people into thinking they're mad, crazed UFC fans, and the energy is unbelievable.
-
Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
-
You can't argue with the truth.
-
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
-
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
