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Hunter S. Thompson

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KELLY JONES February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The dawn is killing me off, the fog is on the windows, the [ra]coons have robbed the cans, and down ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is...
HENRY B. EYRING Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word wi...
TAYLOR SWIFT The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be wit...
BIBLE Well any man with a microphone
can tell you what he loves the most
and you know why you love...
JACK WHITE The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings ass...
DAVID A. BEDNAR Are you destitute for the Fire of God? Nothing else matters! Possess ye God's Fire! All else is void...
PAZARIA SMITH My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa...
JAY COWAN One of the worst incidents of that era caused no complaints at all: this was a sort of good-natured ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challengin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot m...
SHERI L. DEW Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the ...
DAVID A. BEDNAR Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you...
AARON TVEIT My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and ...
FERNANDO PESSOA He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Having mercy is an act of love and a gift of the Holy Spirit.
JAIME CONTRERAS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were mov...
BIBLE February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in ...
HENRY B. EYRING You can two-time satan
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jea...
NAT WOLFF The revelations of the Father and the Son are conveyed through the third member of the Godhead, even...
DAVID A. BEDNAR We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'norm...
STACEY KADE The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and...
JAMES E. FAUST If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
CRAIG GROESCHEL The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C. We offered them a cap on insurance (costs for employees), and they wanted more and more and more.
JEFF MEYERS Tongues are a miraculous manifestation of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON Wyrzucanie negatywnej energii stwarza wolną przestrzeń, w której energia życiowa może zacząć ...
SHIRLIE RODEN Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be a...
COMPAY SEGUNDO Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made y...
BIBLE This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: -- / To speak of bloody power as right divine,/ And call on ...
VACHEL LINDSAY When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweepi...
TEDDY WILSON There's only one way that you'll ever be able to receive this wonderful Comforter is when you believ...
REV. WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the ...
JULIAN OF NORWICH When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their sin...
ERNEST GAINES God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w...
RAY BRADBURY ... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y...
KAREN TAYLEUR The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hun...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded ...
DAVID A. BEDNAR Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite ...
DAVID A. BEDNAR It never really sounds the same. It's sort of like a good symphony orchestra playing a Mozart sympho...
LOU BLUE MARINI Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And t...
RAINBOW ROWELL We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I was pretty happy with the way boys ran despite the score. Holy Ghost is always a tough meet for us...
DANA GEHMAN The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority th...
DAVID A. BEDNAR And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because tha...
BIBLE It's so expensive just to go out and harvest the subsistence foods we rely on. Just five gallons of ...
SIMEON JOHN I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal ...
ALEX GREY I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I ...
ERIN WASSON The Holy Ghost is a personage of Spirit: a separate and distinct member of the Godhead.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don'...
JOYCE MEYER In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God please give me patients, good will and one million dollars. If that's too much then you can keep...
ANONYMOUS The law of manifestation operates like a triangle: First, know what you want and visualize it as if ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE A mystical symphony permeates my senses and a holy lullaby embraces me.
EARTHSCHOOL HARMONY The law of manifestation operates like a triangle: First, know what you want and visualize it as if ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on inve...
RICHARD G. SCOTT You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to d...
HENRY B. EYRING The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, ou...
JOANNA NEWSOM The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without gre...
HENRY B. EYRING Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing goi...
CHRISSIE HYNDE She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with jo...
BIBLE I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it t...
FRANK SINATRA If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinki...
DAVID A. BEDNAR The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
MEL GIBSON For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these ...
BIBLE You can hear the shock and dismay when we tell them what their taxes will be without their homestead...
ERIN MOORE Throughout our history we have seen the careers of some of the nation's most notable journalists flo...
JANN WENNER You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's always been a fun evening where you can visit with your friends and enjoy the camaraderie while...
JOANNA BROWNING When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping s...
TEDDY WILSON When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put o...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON