H. L. Mencken Quotes
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.H. L. Mencken
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
Ralph Boston -
I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
Edmund White -
I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
Gary Herbert -
Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
Laila Robins -
I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
Ira Glass -
Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
Callie Khouri -
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
P. J. Harvey -
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus -
When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
Kate Middleton -
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks -
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Mae West -
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Barbara Sher -
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
Tara Brach -
There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
Hamza Yusuf -
I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
Flume
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No soul willfully does wrong.
Plato -
I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
Alexander Scriabin -
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!
Tom Stoppard -
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
B. Alan Wallace -
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken