Quotes of: American Keyword

One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s

Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it.

Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The more sexual partners a woman has had, the more likely it is that she is depressed.

Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying

There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

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