A Quotes
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“America is too great for small dreams.”
“America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...”
“America is Troy. Trump is a Trojan Horse.”
“America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.”
“America is very conservative. It is not a very modern country. If you look at the population, they are very serious, very nice, very good people. I love the Americans. But they are too serious to be modern. But it's not too late. With the last election, America has proven that it's a very young country at heart. We have big hopes in the world that we can again love America for what it is.”
“America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.”
“America is very important economically. It's certainly, by far, the most important country in the world.”
“America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.”
“America is very, very cruel to its artists. It doesn't give them a chance for growth. It doesn't give them elbow room for change. There's no room at all for failure."
- Carol Marcus Matthau”
Source: Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
“America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.”
“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.”
“America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.”
“America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.”
Source: Invisible Man
“America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.”
“America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.”
“America isn't breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn't dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn't triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren't at each other's throats. They're living more interdependently than at any time in recent memory, because that turns out to be a good coping strategy in hard times. Our nation faces huge challenges, no doubt. So do the rest of the world's aging economic powers. If you had to pick a nation with the right stuff to ride out the coming demographic storm, you'd be crazy not to choose America, warts and all.”
Source: The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
“America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.”
Source: The Rainy Season
“America isn’t the picture of barbecues, guns, freedom, and hot girls eating hamburgers you probably saw on TV. That’s the old America and one I’m not even sure ever existed. The glowies parade that picture around every time they want to put people at ease and push them back into place. DC is especially made of glowies. You can’t talk to anyone because maybe they’re gonna send you to the dungeon or maybe they know someone who can.”
Source: Boom, Boom, Boom
“America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.”
“America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.”
“America isn't Wollman Rink, but I think almost everybody watching, and certainly the people who voted for him, have had frustrating experiences with bureaucrats and bureaucracy, private as well as public, pushing them around.”
“America just reaped what it had been sowing.”
“America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.”
“America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.”
“America knows nothing of food, love, or art.”
“America: Land of the free and home of the gun.
We are not brave, we are cowards, or we would have done something, anything after Newtown. Instead we did Nothing.”
Source: Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum
“America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.”
“America, like England and Scotland, had never really been a gay nation. Rather it had been heavily and noisily jocular, with a substratum of worry and insecurity, in the image of its patron saint, Lincoln of the rollicking stories and the tragic heart. But at least there had been hearty greetings, man to man; there had been clamorous jazz for dancing, and the lively, slangy catcalls of young people, and the nervous blatting of tremendous traffic.”
Source: It Can't Happen Here
“America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence
“America"
Loans
Interest rates
Endless advertisements
Usury and deception
Countless heavy bodies filled with fear
Migrant, refugee, and illegal bodies
that came escaping America’s oppression in their own countries…
America
Depression, anxiety, and pain relief pills
A political, media, and institutional matrix of power
ran by one lobby…
Credit cards
Bankruptcy
Debts
Drugs
The homeless
Racism
Weapons
Strict security measures
Suffocating any attempt for any meaningful change
under the pretext of the homeland security…
America
Sanctions imposed on this country and that,
Internal psychological sanctions imposed
on a majority of the naïve who believe themselves to be free…
America
Tasteless fruit, vegetables, meats, eggs, and cheeses,
injected with hormones, sprayed with pesticides
and many other carcinogenic substances…
America
Houses that look beautiful from the outside,
inhabited by people who are mostly
lonely, going through psychological or nervous breakdowns,
or perhaps wrestling with depression or hysteria,
the luckiest of them are on daily pills to help them
adapt to the psychological and spiritual death
surrounding them from all sides…
America
Fruitless trees and scentless flowers,
as if as a punishment or a curse from heaven
upon those who stole the land from its native people,
after erasing most of them…
America
Bills
Sad letters in the mail,
mostly from companies and advertisers
wishing you a delightful day and great consumption,
encouraging you to solve your problems with more consumption,
and reminding you that you may die abruptly
of loneliness or the toxins that you consume,
and therefore, you must seriously consider
purchasing your casket and the plot
under which you will be buried…
[Original poem published in Arabic on August 27, 2024 at ahewar.org]”
“America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.”
“America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.”
“America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.”
“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.”
“America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.”
“America may be entering it’s Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.”
“America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.”
“America may be losing a competitive edge in many enterprises, from cars to space, riffed National Public Radio host Scott Simon in the summer of 2010, "but as long as we can devise a five-bladed, mineral-oil-saturated razor, we face the future well-shaved.”
Source: Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
“America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.”
“America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.”
“America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.”
“America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.”
Source: Bits of Gossip
“America may have landed a man on the moon, but the French have the coolest wedding cakes on earth. It's not really a cake. It's called a croquembouche- a "crunch in the mouth"- or, more regally, a pièce montée. It's like you climb the ladder to your new life on a four-foot pyramid of individual vanilla cream puffs, held together with glossy praline- caramelized sugar that shatters in your mouth like glass and sticks in your teeth like toffee.”
Source: Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
“America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.”
Source: Racism 101
“America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.”
“AMERICA means Affectionate, Merciful, Egalitarian, Responsible, Inclusive, Conscientious and Accepting.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.”
“America must always lead on the world stage.”
“America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.”
“America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.”