Quotes by American/USA authors (page 32)

"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it"

Charles A. Jaffe, Businessman

"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse"

George Washington, President

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments"

George Washington, President

"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government"

George Washington, President

"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests"

Andrew Jackson, President

"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government"

George Will, Journalist

"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power"

Andrew Jackson, President

"A will finds a way"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach"

Peter Drucker, Businessman