H. L. Mencken Quotes

Lawyer - One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.

H. L. Mencken

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• I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
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• There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

  

  Tania Raymonde
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• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
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• I'm not really a pianist.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Really
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• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
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• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Great
  • America
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• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Inspiration is the key to everything.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Inspiration
  • Key

• You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.

  

  Ian Wace
  • Money
  • Day
  • Environment

• I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Work
  • Honor
  • Get

• Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Brother
  • Honesty
  • Twin

• Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Amazing
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  • Maddie Ziegler

• What does dating mean?

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Dating

• Out of the air a voice without a face Proved by statistics that some cause was just In tones as dry and level as the place: No one was cheered and nothing was discussed...

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Character
  • Acting
  • Actors

• I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

  

  Jerry West
  • Time
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• The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Perspective
  • Slavery
  • Lawyer

• I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

  

  John Polkinghorne
  • Different
  • Science
  • Temptation

• As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Christian
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• Lawyer - One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Lawyer
  • Temptation