Peculiarly American Quotes

#1. Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society - to help solve our contemporary problems - seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?

Jonathan Franzen

#2. He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American - that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

Howard Fast

#4. skyscraper would remain one of the most peculiarly American of white-collar institutions, much more a symbol of the prowess, even ruthlessness, of American-style capitalism than what it equally was: an especially tall collection of boring offices.

Nikil Saval

#5. That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

Gore Vidal

#6. We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

Ron Kovic

#7. And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

Eric Roberts

#9. All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

Joko Beck

#10. Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.

Carol P. Christ

#11. Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

Dave Ramsey

#12. And so the greatest of American triumphs ... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

Robert M. Gates

#13. It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Democritus

#14. A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.

Sam Ewing

#15. A mother's evening prayers for her child are one of the most powerful curse-fighters in the world.

Jason Lethcoe

#16. When religious law becomes civil law, does the state not cease being secular, and become theocratic or theocentric?

Christina Engela

#17. Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath
and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

Sam Harris

#18. Unless you bring a beating heart into your message, it is dead' (Author unknown)

That's why I wrote my how-to book, "Don't Write your MEmoir without ME". If there's no "this is me" in your memoir, it won't resonate with your readers the way you hope it will.

Viga Boland

#19. My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.

Avril Lavigne

#20. You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#21. Words, of course, are the most powerful drug used by humanity,

Ashwin Sanghi