Quotes 1161 till 1180 of 6747.
-
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
-
American public opinion is like an ocean - it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
-
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
-
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
-
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
-
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
-
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
-
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
-
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
-
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
-
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
-
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
-
Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
-
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
-
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
-
Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
-
Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
-
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
-
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
All all-american famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 59)
