Americans Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.”

— Gore Vidal

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“if we really care about all Americans, and we must, we have to understand what is happening.”

— Historica Press

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all…

— Marianne Williamson

“everyone needs a hand, which takes them to an another world”

— clinton peter

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

When the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

— Mitt Romney

“An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.”

— Thornton Wilder

“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it,…

— Kathleen Norris

For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all…

— Ilana Mercer

“This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a…

— David Foster Wallace