Americanized Book Quotes & Sayings

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere. — Mencius

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice. — Richard Bach

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'd make a joke about falling for you," she said. "But that's cheesy and terrible, and I've decided I don't believe in falling. I believe in something else."
"What's that?" asked Jared.
"The opposite of falling," Kami said, after a long time. "I did not fall. I climbed, to a place high enough that I could see clearly. Once I saw, I was certain. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I love OneRepublic, The Script, All Time Low. I love pretty much every genre. I love the Rolling Stones and Elvis. — Ross Lynch

Political emancipation is a reduction of man, on the one hand to a member of civil society, an independent and egoistic individual, and on the other hand, to a citizen, a moral person.
Human emancipation will only be complete when the real, individual man has absorbed into himself the abstract citizen; when as an individual man, in his everyday life, in his work, and in his relationships, he has become a species-being; and when he has recognized and organized his own powers (forces propres) as social powers so that he no longer separates this social power from himself as political power. — Karl Marx

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable — Peter Ackroyd

She remembered wondering what it was that the Albanians exported in such an anonymous way, but when on one occasion she had looked it up, she found that their only export was electricity - which, if she remembered her high school physics correctly, was unlikely to be moved around in lorries. — Douglas Adams

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity. — Harrison Ford

It wasn't the greatest bargain I'd ever made, but I didn't see a lot of alternatives, short of moving into Charlie's bedroom or trying to convince John to move to Belize. — Melissa F. Olson

Man loneliness was much bigger than boy loneliness. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed,
When people were aware to fight for identity. — Marieta Maglas

You cannot rely on anyone but yourself to save your life. — Jim Byler

An afro is a poor man's haircut. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana