104460 Quotes by American authors

American voices swing between defiance and tenderness, mixing porch talk with courtroom thunder, hymnals with barroom jokes. The sayings lean toward motion, road-tested, restless, certain that the next turn matters, and they test ideas like tools, not ornaments. Humor undercuts sermon, dissent stands beside loyalty, and hope keeps arguing with experience. From prairie plain speech to borough quickfire, the language favors verbs over lace, a handshake over ceremony. Edge meets empathy, contradictions are carried honestly, and words still try to shove the world forward.

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"If you take away what a person owns, you control what that person can do"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

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"The best smell in the world is that man that you love"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

Stephen King, Author

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"Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood"

Rob Reiner, Director

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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch"

Woody Allen, Director

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"A problem well stated is a problem half-solved"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

David Carradine, Actor

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"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

John Portman, Architect

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"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it"

Mark Twain, Author

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"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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"Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

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"We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false"

William J. Casey, Director

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"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

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"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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"Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon"

John Madden, Coach

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"Tiger Woods experienced perhaps the greatest fall from grace of any celebrity in American history"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

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"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"

Stephen King, Author

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"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time"

Jack London, Novelist

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"Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek"

Dan Rather, Journalist

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"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

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"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"

Miles Davis, Musician

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"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

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"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it"

Denzel Washington, Actor

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"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

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"We have to tell our babies to stop crying"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

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"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

Marion C. Garretty, Poet

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"A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom"

Jerry Hall, Model

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"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

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"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse"

Ronald Reagan, President

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"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls"

George Carlin, Comedian

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"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail"

David Merrick, Producer

"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"As government imposes the will of a few upon the many, the many begin to resist. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the government to use force to make the people conform"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

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"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent"

Jerome Lawrence, Playwright

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

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