The church is near, but the way is icy. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.
In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way,...
Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to overcome them somehow. Therapy, religion and spirituality, relationships, material succ...
To be American is to be part of a dialogical and democratic operation that grapples with the challenge of being human in an open-ended and experimental manner. Although America is a romantic project in which a paradise, a land of dreams, is fanned an...
LaBoeuf: You are getting ready to show your ignorance now, Cogburn. I don't mind a little personal chaffing but I won't hear anything against the Ranger troop from a man like you.L Rooster Cogburn: How long have you boys been mounted on sheep down th...
Nearly everyone who is asked where they want to spend their final days says at home, surrounded by people they love and who love them. That's the consistent finding of surveys and, in my experience as a doctor, remains true when people become patient...
European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!
I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'
American is the first democratic nation-state.
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.
My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.
McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.
Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.
