105681 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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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

Bill Cosby

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river"

Ross Perot, Businessman

Ross Perot

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

Robert A. Heinlein

"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"Success and failure are equally disastrous"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

Jesse Jackson

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say, is what counts"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

Thomas Hooker

"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times"

Bruce Lee, Actor

Bruce Lee

"Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

Henny Youngman

"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

Orison Swett Marden

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

William F. Buckley, Jr.

"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me"

Cary Grant, Actor

Cary Grant

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do"

Michael Porter, Educator

Michael Porter

"Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

Scott Adams

"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution"

Huey Newton, Activist

Huey Newton

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

Ken Thompson

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

Phyllis Diller

"We are most alive when we're in love"

John Updike, Novelist

John Updike

"After thirty, a body has a mind of its own"

Bette Midler, Actress

Bette Midler

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions"

Ken Blanchard, Author

Ken Blanchard

"It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better"

Bill Bradley, Politician

Bill Bradley

"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one"

Bobby Knight, Coach

Bobby Knight

"A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed"

Lou Costello, Comedian

Lou Costello

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer"

Merton Miller, Economist

"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before"

Frank Rizzo, Politician

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