Quotes of: Latin-america Keyword

For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.

Democracy in America

The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.” -Elizabeth Bisland

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.

Garage Sale America

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

House of Sand and Fog

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today in North America would be speaking Spanish rather than English.

Blackbeard the Pirate

President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

Foster Friess

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

Gerry Beckley

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made se...

John Cusack

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

Jane Fonda

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely ...

Martin Jacques

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Thomas Perez