A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.”
“Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.”
“Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.”
Source: The View From The Ground
“Americans didn't vote for Republicans in 2016, they voted for the Trump Rebellion.”
“Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."”
“Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.”
“Americans do not like long wars with indecisive outcomes.”
“Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.”
“Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.”
“Americans don't care about privacy, and the people running the country couldn't be happier.”
“Americans don't have much history
so they like things they think are old.”
Source: Other Words for Home
“Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.”
“Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.”
“Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.”
“Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.”
“Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.”
“Americans don't like European movies.”
“Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.”
“Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.”
“Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
“Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.”
“Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.”
“Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.”
“Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.”
“Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.”
“Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.”
“Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.”
Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews
“Americans don't usually have to think about Canadian-American relations, or, as they would put it, American-Canadian relations. Why think about something which you believe affects you so little? We, on the other hand, have to think about you whether we like it or not.”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.”
“Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.”
“Americans don't want to hear the answers are privileged and off limits or they can't be provided in public or it would be inappropriate for witnesses to tell us what they know. We are talking about an attack on our democratic institutions and stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. General Jeff Sessions acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.”
“Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.”
“Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.”
“Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.”
“Americans feel as though the only position they can possibly occupy is number one and if they're not number one, well, the end of the world has come.”
“Americans flip flopping between Republicans and Democrats may eventually destroy the USA and possibly the world.”
“Americans, for the most part, take themselves entirely too seriously. They rarely see the absurdity of the television shows that they watch, of the hilarious silliness of shopping malls, or the dizzying frivolity of the unending fashions invented and discarded by the market.”
Source: The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution
“Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.”
“Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.”
“Americans give you the violence, Europeans give you the sex. I think people have been saying that since the 70s. And I think it's kind of pathetic that Americans are still stuck - on the shock value of violence, when sex is such a natural thing for everybody.”
“Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.”
“Americans had become lazy and irresponsible, focused on the pursuit of sex, money, and pleasures, unwilling to sacrifice and prepare for the obvious threats all around them. What fools to think "Guns, Germs and Steel" would no longer shape human history. For decades they partied at the Coliseum, enjoying the games and government handouts, the illusion of a protected empire. Sedated with unconstitutional entitlements. Freed from responsibility by a pandering political system, a corrupt culture, and professional soldiers who kept the wolves at bay.”
Source: Rohan Nation: Reinventing America after the 2020 Collapse
“Americans have a certain idea of what films are and the French have a much deeper sense of cinema. The cinémathèque is like a temple for them. And the people who write about it are really intellectuals. It's just a sensibility that they appreciate it.”
“Americans have a hard time writing moms. I'll get a script and everything's really great and well-drawn, but the mom is like stock footage, they go and get that out. They plug it in, this idea of "mother." You could lift moms out of any script, no matter what the culture, what the neighborhood, what the economic status, and you could switch them around, and they'd be the same person. I think it's because most people don't really have a human idea, a specific life that they attach to who their mother was. Their mother was there for them, so it either gets deified, or the opposite.”
“Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower.”
“Americans have a love affair with weak coffee.’ ‘And you’re a coffee expert, too,’ Gwen said, cutting a thick slice of apple pie.”
Source: Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
“Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.”
“Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.”
“Americans have a reputation for waiting until the crisis strikes before they spit on their hands and get to work.”
Source: Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America