Disarming Quote by Lorraine Hansberry Download Open image “American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.” — Lorraine Hansberry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disarming Thinking
Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not… — David Means Copy Share Image
“You’re American,” she said simply. “You think straightforwardness is a virtue.” — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say. — May Agnes Fleming Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II,… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek. — Angela Elwell Hunt Copy Share Image
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States'… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. — Sarah Brady Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image