#kin

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. ↗

— Golda Meir

#felt #honestly #i #i can #never

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#autism #believe #children #could #deserve

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#always #being #character #coat #different

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#authority #fight #high #high school #high school teacher

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#i think #kind #look #lot #map

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. ↗

— David Mellor

#charge #lawyers #like #ready #short-sighted

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. ↗

— Herman Melville

#better #delight #give #mankind #persons

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#caused #common #crime #kind #poor

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#complete #consciousness #does #everything #existence