All Quotes

Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.
‐‐ Richard Lugar

Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.
‐‐ Rusty Schweickart

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
‐‐ Anthony Burgess

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
‐‐ Dan Rather

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
‐‐ James Taylor

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
‐‐ Florence King

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
‐‐ Joseph Stiglitz

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
‐‐ Joseph Stiglitz

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
‐‐ Upamanyu Chatterjee

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.
‐‐ Stephen F. Lynch

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
‐‐ Tom Tancredo

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.
‐‐ Timothy Murphy

Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.'
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.
‐‐ Virgil Goode

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
‐‐ Sextus Propertius

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
‐‐ John Jewel

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
‐‐ Taslima Nasrin

Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.
‐‐ Amelia Earhart

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!
‐‐ Max Heindel

Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
‐‐ Ilka Chase

'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the elements were there to make it a great genre film, it also left room for me to put a creative flair on it that wasn't your typical slasher or psychological thriller.
‐‐ Danielle Harris

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
‐‐ Andres Segovia

Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
‐‐ Bobby Locke

Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life - depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.
‐‐ Michael Greger

Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
‐‐ Saint Basil

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates