H. L. Mencken Quotes

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

H. L. Mencken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Topics

FearManSafetyUnknownEmotion

Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.

Jens Martin Skibsted

TimeThinkFindingMoreHygiene

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

Angela Merkel

ExperiencePeopleMeTreatGrowWay

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

Jefferson Davis

MountainsOpinionDifferencesRivers

There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war.

Steve Mann

WarThinkAppleGlassWillGoogle

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Mary Schmich

LoveMoviesAdmireSeeFunctionWho

I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.

Lorde

SimpleClothesGoSometimesVibe

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

GoodBusinessTechnologyChaosOut

But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.

Brad Carson

PeopleMeSaidWashingtonDifficult

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

Anne Donovan

EducationFocusSchoolThinkYou

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

Alice McDermott

CharacterDoubtRiskFictionWriter

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

Phylicia Rashad

PeopleMeUnderstandingYouNothing

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

Shayne Ward

PeopleEasyYouWrongAroundType

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