Quotes of: American-lives Keyword

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

Dennis Prager

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

John Updike

11% of Americans believe HTML is a sexually transmitted disease. In reality, HTML is caused by bacteria living in the lower bowel.

John Alejandro King

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Marco Rubio

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

Ahmed Chalabi

I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.

Larry Fitzgerald

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

William Greider

In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more inclined to support social services for the area, which...

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and career: for the sake of citizenship, for th...

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are lik...

From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century

At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising comm...

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become yo...

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight.

Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1: Colonial through Romantic

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when ...

Studies in Classic American Literature

We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.

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

Governments from the top fail as often as those from the bottom; and every great failure brings a sad social reaction, thousands and millions of helpless men laying down their lives in the unhappy process. Why may not statesmen study the past and avo...

William E. Dodd

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.

The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy As They Do

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Russell Lynes

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. -Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

American Pie

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

The Namesake