“I am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago they left. Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities, and you really have an America that is back on its feet, a comfortable nation to live in again. I really think we're gonna have to reassess what constitutes a hero.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongAmericaLeftNationsCommunityResponsibilityWonderKnow HowFeetSkyHeroComfortableRedGiantsLong AgoStatuesFramedOregonYesteryear Author:Tom McCall
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.” MeanIndividualNationsSportsWonderEnglandTrainWesternTinyToysPassengersInsufficientIndignantLocomotives Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902
“The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.” WorldHeartLongMadeCareThreeNationsWonderGreaterPiecesHonestDangerBeatsReflectionEuropeRiversPrejudiceSevenBritishLondonTriumphBridgesKnightsEnglishmenFrenchmenWonder Of The World Author:Joseph Addison
“It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder.” IfsWellsIdeasNationsPresidentWonderWasteDiversityPicksCandidatesZeroPopularityImpressiveQualifiedPresident BushBucksJudicialCroniesSaggingBright Ideas Author:Michelle Malkin
“Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!” PeopleWorldCharacterRealityNationsSocialWonderFantasySpecialConditionsOffersClothesLaborBillsDuesMovieCharmFloatsVirtual RealityTediumDebtorsSocial Conditions Author:Molly Haskell
“Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.” KindPersonsAgeCertainNationsWonderMoralGenerationsFashionMoralitySucceedVicesCoachesCharacteristicsHatsAncestorWickednessDepravityCensureMoralistScruplesPatronage Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.” ThinkingKnowsMatterBodyEyeNightCertainNationsGrowsPresidentSleepExistenceLeaderWonderMillionsHairOffersOfficeWake UpDeeperEvery NightToesDaze Author:George Washington