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Vast Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction…
- The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of…
- It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every…
- Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
- The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel…
More Vast Quotes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. — Joseph Barbera
- Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams
- I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened;… — J. G. Ballard
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers… — Norman Borlaug
- Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films… — Danny Boyle
- The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can… — David Brainerd
- It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our… — Sitting Bull