Quotes of: American-troops Keyword

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

Twenty in Paris: A Young American Perspective of Studying Abroad in Paris

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

Too many codeine pills, Too many nights of cold chills Too many weak-handed deals Too many lives, the addict steals

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story

I pawned the remote to my misery, trading it in for liquor that was cheap; screwdrivers for my vitamin c, and a little bloodstream to my IV, helping to soothe my lunacy

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to do. Don’t confess.

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.

The Age of American Unreason

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. 

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

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

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

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

We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American...

Nathan Myhrvold

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

Poppy Montgomery

Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to ...

Peter Welch

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

Quentin Tarantino

American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for their gender or sexuality...

Reza Aslan

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for million...

Ruben Hinojosa

When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.

Sheldon Whitehouse

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democra...

Tony Campolo

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't p...

Tim Meadows