America Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children…

— Marian Wright Edelman

'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“No American sport or activity has been so consistently and so passionately under attack as boxing, for "moral" as we'll as other reasons. And…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who's trying to drink himself to death…

— Tom Hardy

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue…

— Alexander Pope

My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul…

— Kim Harrison

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be…

— Rose Macaulay

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the…

— Oliver Sacks

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it…

— Frantz Fanon

“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.”

— Anthon St. Maarten