Quotes of: American-league Keyword

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

Vic Snyder

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Vernon A. Walters

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

Dayananda Saraswati

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.

Mitch Daniels

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Marya Mannes

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

Joe Lieberman

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Howard Rheingold

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

Jane Alexander

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.

Martin Freeman

Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished,nurtured and protected for all of time

American Amaranth

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

American Born Chinese

Hey, you’re the one who can’t stand me being so close to you.

All-American Girl

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

American Gods

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

American Gods

What am I doing here?” asked Shadow. “In Lakeside, I mean. Not in the world.

American Gods

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

American Gods

Dream Song: The heavens Go with me.

American Indians and Their Music

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

American Psycho

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

American Psycho