Super Patriotic Quotes

#1. I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

Waris Ahluwalia

#2. The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

Eminem

#3. In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

Pericles

#4. I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

Dave Grohl

#5. An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Jane Austen

#6. There is no pure free-market economy.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#7. Did you just say you were going to punch my brother or did I dream that too?

Alex Morgan

#8. Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Napoleon Hill

#9. I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

Chris Burke

#10. I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.

Jim Butcher

#11. 'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#12. For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself.

Aleister Crowley

#13. God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

Timothy Keller

#14. Yet I wouldn't trade it. I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant I could be with Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

#15. Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

Joe Conason