Americans Quote by Max Lerner Download Open image ““Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.”” — Max Lerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Americans Loss
“We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I want people to understand something I learned only recently: that for those of us lucky enough to live the American Dream, the demons… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the former would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our hearts and were cut… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
“to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“We all need to withdraw from the world, occasionally. I think there are many ways people lose themselves into something they love to do.” — Karen Donahue Copy Share Image
“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.” — Nikita Allgire Copy Share Image
“loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening.” — Jennifer Ryan Copy Share Image
“Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life,… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“People – Americans, mostly – realise how attached they are to material comforts when they arrive in India.” — Paul William Roberts Copy Share Image
Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more. — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food.… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us. — Himanshu Suri Copy Share Image
When Americans, who have no idea who I am, laugh at my jokes, it's exactly the same if someone loves you even if you're… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image