Quotes by American/USA authors (page 67)

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some"

Tina Turner, Musician

"I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things"

Tina Turner, Musician

"There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission"

Andrew Jackson, President

"To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"Any colour - so long as it's black"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it"

Andrew Jackson, President

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression"

Earl Warren, Judge

"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn"

Earl Warren, Judge

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