H. L. Mencken Quotes
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
H. L. Mencken
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
Daniel Bryan
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
Adam Peaty
In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
Gary Paulsen
Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
Douglas Wilder
I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.
David Rockefeller
Margaret Thatcher is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.
Austin Mitchell
If you're doing live-action, you have to learn how to actually do whatever it is that you're doing. If you're doing voice-over, you can fake it.
Tricia Helfer
We should think of the problems of the people who gave us all this confidence, and I'm proud, but I feel responsible.
Rafik Hariri
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
H. L. Mencken
