Quotes:American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
View quotes by Henry AdamsPeople are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
View quotes by Florence KingThe immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
View quotes by Mary McCarthyI keep getting these extraordinary letters from American sports stars saying: 'I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
View quotes by Liz HurleyFor two decades, the name of the author, Duncan Hines, was etched on the biting edge of the American appetite. The best-known and most purposeful vagabond.
View quotes by David SchwartzBeing on American Idol has been a life changing experience, I can't believe how far I've come from where I was just those couple of months back at the start of the show! It's awesome.
View quotes by Blake LewisThe great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
View quotes by Marya MannesAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
View quotes by Katherine DunnNo political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
View quotes by John MarshallIf you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh four hundred and fifty pounds. [Good one Greg!]
View quotes by Greg GiraldoIt is true that a lot of people fall for the American Dream, but if you want to actually make it you have to work as hard as anywhere else, it is just that you are surely guaranteed a fair chance.
View quotes by Eva GreenIt is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last,' as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
View quotes by Alan GreenspanThe American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
View quotes by Carl LevinThanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
View quotes by Ayn RandI suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in [this] that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
View quotes by Douglas MacarthurThe most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
View quotes by Daniel BoorstinI knew well in advance, even before I stepped on the stage for my first event, that I was going to lose [on losing to American Carly Patterson for gold, and then accusing judges of bias]
View quotes by Svetlana KhorkinaIt is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
View quotes by Lyndon JohnsonWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
View quotes by Zelda FitzgeraldThere is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But this will test China and the world trade system.
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