Hl Mencken Scopes Trial Quotes & Sayings

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel

The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature. — Robert Adams

Revenge is never a straight line. — Hattori Hanzo

Thriller writers see a rose colored world through dark tinted glasses. — Carl Henegan

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. — Carlos Fuentes

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul. — Philip Yancey

But I'm still curious to know: can you move a mountain or not?' 'If God commands it, I will move it,' Tikhon pronounced with quiet restraint, again beginning to lower his eyes. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others. — Pepe Eliaschev

I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss. — Karen Marie Moning

I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her. — Bella Thorne