Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image ““What people discard could make a nation”” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always… — Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett Copy Share Image
“A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.” — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its citizens, not” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“But in America the sovereignty of the people is neither hidden nor sterile as with some other nations; mores recognize it, and the laws… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Who does more for a nation--the one who makes a fuss about it or the one who, without thinking of it, raises it to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.” — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“No nation becomes great without first eradicating laziness from the lives of its citizens. A nation could be blessed with all the natural resources… — CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a nation is dependent on the potentials of its citizens. Great nations don’t make great people, only great people make great… — CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
