Quotes About The American Dream In Literature

#1. Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Amy Lowell

#2. Whether you want to learn a new skill or simply be better at the job you were hired to do, it's now your job to train and invest in yourself.

Reid Hoffman

#3. Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

Jean Toomer

#4. I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Israel Gelfand

#5. If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.

Courtney Love

#6. When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.

Debasish Mridha

#7. You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven].

Jennie Allen

#8. The guy with Bennett let go of his elbow and started patting his pockets. He came out with the switchblade, now closed up again, and a Sig Sauer automatic, a P226, I thought, favored by Special Forces everywhere.

Lee Child

#9. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. It would be sweet to be cared for despite her faults, and to be wanted for her person rather than the power she comes with.

Kendare Blake

#11. I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man
in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.

Josef Albers

#12. A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

Gertrude Atherton

#13. I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.

Norman Mailer

#14. Since the time of Richard Nixon, there has been a strange lack of will in the media to identify the real cause for Americans' anger at politicians who fall, publicly and spectacularly.

Mimi Kennedy

#15. Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

John Patrick Lowrie

#16. The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Azar Nafisi

#17. Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this ... and totally redeem yourself!

Harry Dunn