Quotes of: American-dream Keyword

He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks and realizations leaves so many boys raised in poo...

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

It’s almost as if all the sleazy men in this country attended the same seminar, where they learned that all American women go to Italy to sleep with them. The teacher at the seminar told them, “You don’t need to learn English to seduce an Ameri...

Rita Stradling

Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been ment...

Henry A. Wallace

The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we rem...

Barack Obama

This Obamacare thing really scares me. The United States government / politicians are trying to turn the American people into a brand X “One size fits all” country. The past ten years has been very grim for Americans. Our current state is very gr...

Carroll Bryant

Pu Yi, at 15: Who is this George Washington? Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: A famous American, your majesty. A revolutionary general, the first American president. Pu Yi, at 15: Ah, like Mr. Lenin in Russia? Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: Not q...

The Last Emperor

The Dreaming is always; forever... it's always happening, and us mob, we're part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.

Crow Country

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Emotionalist: A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

Caravan of Dreams

Saying of the Prophet Envy Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Caravan of Dreams

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Caravan of Dreams

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Caravan of Dreams

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

Cicero De Amicitia (On Friendship) And Scipio's Dream

Saying of the Prophet Love Do you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

Caravan of Dreams

Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

Caravan of Dreams

Dicho del Profeta Soy como un hombre que ha encendido una hoguera y todas las cosas vivientes han corrido a quemarse en ella.

Caravan of Dreams

Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Caravan of Dreams

Dicho del Profeta Día y noche La noche es larga, no la acortes con el sueño. El día es hermoso, no lo oscurezcas mediante malas obras.

Caravan of Dreams

Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Caravan of Dreams

Let me make it clear. There will be no repeat of that night. Absolutely not! Not ever, do you understand?” "Who are you trying to convince, Tessnia? Me or you?

Chaysing Dreams

Be careful, if I didn't know better, I would think you're sounding jealous." "Good thing you know better.

Chaysing Dreams