White Anglo Saxon Protestant Quotes

#1. Obama's election had challenged many whites' central cultural assumption - that the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) was the only authentic model of citizenship.

Robert P. Jones

#2. When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.

Isabel Gillies

#3. If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

Betty Friedan

#4. I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.

Steve Carell

#5. The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

Harry Truman

#6. If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people ...

Lee Clow

#7. Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.

Sere Prince Halverson

#8. the result is what people live with, not the cause.

Garth Stein

#9. They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.

Joseph Bau

#10. In treacherous currents, she is kept steady by a moral anchor the size of a ship.

Dean Koontz

#11. Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

Amber Tamblyn

#12. To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

Michel De Montaigne

#13. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#14. It's a weary, sickening sensation to wander without the need for sleep and never find what you're looking for. After a while you give up, either because you don't care anymore or you know you don't deserve it.

Ian Lewis

#15. Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.

Tom Bunk

#16. And as terrified as she might have been as she lay in that room, perhaps regretting herself to the core, she had already resolved not to show any fear, no matter what was in store for her. So when

Chang-rae Lee