#rage

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#average man #man #obsessed #sex #woman

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#around #corners #courage #goes #see

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#gets #kind #matters #moment #next

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#being #calling #course #discourage #get

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#climate #could #courageous #enormously #help

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#been #burst #chest #down #felt

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ape #average #believe #descended #even

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#about #basic #bore #endless #existence

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average woman #becomes #ever #how #lives