American Revolutions Quotes

#1. Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

William S. Burroughs

#2. He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

Milan Kundera

#3. With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

Arnold Beichman

#4. Finn: I look at you because I can't look away Wendy.
Wendy: That's kinda creepy.
Finn: I will work on being less creepy then.

Amanda Hocking

#5. Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.

Thomas Sankara

#6. Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

Jim Stynes

#7. From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

Gary Hamel

#8. I think it would be different to work with a guy like Kanye West or Jay-Z, those guys are so phenomenal, but just to work with a rapper, I don't think is really my thing. I really like songs, like true songs. Like indie songs.

Tiesto

#9. In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Alexander Wang

#10. building prisons is our number one social program for young men

Gavin De Becker

#11. If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#12. We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. Money, iit turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings if you did.

James Baldwin

#14. Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

William A. Dembski

#15. When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself.

Lori Hatcher

#16. They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed ... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.

Peter Shaffer