H. L. Mencken Quotes
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.H. L. Mencken
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
Sally Yates -
I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
Gail Collins -
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber -
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
Walter Lang -
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
J. D. Salinger
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
Ed O'Neill -
I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
Randy Moss -
In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
Laura Harring -
Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
Sally Schneider -
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott -
I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
Sally Hawkins
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
Ian K. Smith -
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
Felix Adler -
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
Patch Adams -
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
Raekwon -
On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
Nancy Keenan -
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
Oliver Stone
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
Vikram Seth -
When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
Sam Hunt -
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken