H. L. Mencken Quotes

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Great
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Experience
  • Often

• Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Right
  • Now
  • Places

• The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • World
  • Taken

• I just have to remember that everybody has their time.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember

• Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• I auditioned for 'Mad Men.' I auditioned for 'Top of the Lake.' I obviously auditioned for 'West Wing,' so I still get excited when I get offered stuff. Like, a part of me thinks, 'They think I can do it! That's awesome!' And that's a part of me I have to squash; otherwise, I would do everything just because people gave it to me.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • People
  • Men
  • Mad

• I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

  

  Jeremy Bulloch
  • Hope
  • Theatre

• I don't want to be followed by random men I don't know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can't post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Picture

• I had all these raw, gritty rock records that really inspired me sonically, and so I think everything I listen to when I started writing my own songs kind of came out naturally, and it created this new sound.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Writing
  • Rock
  • Inspired

• Sometimes I'll be listening to NPR at the gym, and I'll hear them say, 'Oh, Donald Trump did this today.' And I'm like, 'What?' All of a sudden, I have more energy than if I drank an espresso.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Today
  • Energy
  • Listening

• As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.

  

  Bobbi Brown
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Color

• I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

  

  Dorothea Lange
  • Believe

• I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Hand
  • Confidence

• It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

  

  Edward Tufte
  • Support

• When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

  

  John Wesley
  • Hope
  • Christian

• Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

  

  John Polanyi
  • World

• In high school I went on about three dates.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • School

• The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Children
  • Small
  • Simple

• Later orthodox theologians would have found this view completely inadequate. In stressing that the Father was “greater” than the Son, Tertullian articulated a view that would later be deemed a heresy. Theology, in these early years of the formation of Christian doctrine, could not stand still. It progressed and got more complicated, sophisticated, and refined as time went on.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Theologians
  • Heresy
  • Christian Doctrine

• I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Hope
  • Way
  • Facts

• As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Country
  • Republican
  • Welfare

• For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Theologians