We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: talent recognition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. —Jean Anouilh More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: confidence dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time. —Henry Rollins More about this quote Tags: relationships people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. —Jules Renard More about this quote Tags: laziness rest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. —James T. Farrell More about this quote Tags: truth USA America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt. —Raymond Chandler More about this quote Tags: USA America England manners Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Although the desire of acquiring the good things of this world is the prevailing passion of the American people, certain momentary outbreaks occur when their souls seem suddenly to burst the bonds of matter by which they are restrained and to soar impetuously toward heaven. —Alexis de Tocqueville More about this quote Tags: USA America materialism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America, thou half brother of the world, with something good and bad of every land. —Philip James Bailey More about this quote Tags: USA America melting pot Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: politics history judgement USA America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: space compromise cooperation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. This helps explain why American culture is so hostile to the idea of limits, why voters during the last energy shortage rejected the sweater-wearing Jimmy Carter and elected Ronald Reagan who told them it was still "morning in America." Nowhere does the myth of progress have more fervent believers. —Ronald Wright More about this quote Tags: politics hope USA wealth social status socialism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How hard it is for Americans, even Americans of goodwill, not to consider themselves the center of the universe. —Simone de Beauvoir More about this quote Tags: USA americans self-centeredness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: history USA dogs analogy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They call it the “American Dream” because you have to be asleep to believe it. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: politics humor USA american dream Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email