“Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“Americans, too belong to a class—one responsible for and intrinsically tied to a history of torture, bombings, and coups d’état carried out… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.” — Hidekaz Himaruya Copy Share Image
“How did that saying go? Alexia wondered. Ah, yes, “Brash as an American.” Well, they had won their independence somehow, and it… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people. — T. Rafael Cimino Copy Share Image
“Daily mass killings are a uniquely American problem, because in America every halfwit can get his hands on a gun. You know… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The Park's nice,' his father conceded, 'but the rest of the country is just people in huge cars wondering what to eat… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like "yoga" or "karma", it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture… — Debra Ollivier Copy Share Image
“Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.” — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“ L'Avventura ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?" — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
“What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s death as… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.”… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, "That's why I'm meeting with you. Only… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“As a rule, Americans are big on that word “choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
