What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.
Bram StokerWhere humanity
sowed faith, hope, and unity,
joy’s garden blossomed.
Mots clés history humanity philosophy patriotism faith joy spirituality haiku personal-growth healing americans multiculturalism world-suicide-prevention-day teaching-diversity haikus national-history-day famous-quotes-from-classic-books rejuvenation remembering-september-11 america-remembers multiculturalismo multiculturalità rebith
[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic atmosphere, liberals are no less cynical, shortsighted, and parochial than anyone else, and they understand their fellow-Americans just as badly as they themselves are understood. When liberals look at red-state voters, they see either a mob of pious know-nothings or the insensible victims of militarism and class warfare. Yet.... [such people] defy fixed categories, which means that they have to be figured out the hard way--on their own terms.
George PackerMots clés politics cynicism liberals understanding 9-11 stereotypes americans war-on-terror political-parties shortsightedness 9-11-10th-anniversary parochialism rifts
Sprinkled across the black waters below were at least a hundred small boats set out to greet the Leviathan, their navigation lights like shifting stars. Among them loomed a glittering cruise liner, her fog horn bellowing in the night. The low groan grew into a chorus as the other great ships in the harbor joined in.
Perched on Volger's desk, Bovril attempted to imitate the horns, but wound up sounding like a badly blown tuba.
Alek smiled. "But they're already singing our praises!"
"They are Americans," Volger said. "They toot their horns for anything.
Mots clés americans
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.
Zbigniew BrzezińskiMots clés foreign-policy ignorance americans populism geopolitics
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans
Zbigniew BrzezińskiMots clés politics ignorance americans populism
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.
Yahtzee CroshawMots clés america funny americans superheroes
Клозетът бе пълен с американци със свалени гащи. Банкетът за добре дошли ги бе накарал да бълват като вулкани… Един американец близо до Били ридаеше, че е изходил всичко с изключение на мозъка си. Миг след това той каза: “Ето го, отива, отива!” Имаше предвид мозъка си. Това бях аз. Това бе авторът на тази книга.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés americans
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.
Gore VidalMots clés america ignorance americans society-thinking murica
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
Mots clés americans europe homesickness
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