Quotes of H.L. Mencken

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A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

- H.L. Mencken

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“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ”

- Unknown

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ If you want a future that makes you happy, if you want a world that you’re excited about, get your ass out there and earn it. ”

- Tom Bilyeu

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett