Disuniting America Quotes & Sayings

Life in Australia would go on, and I would hear nothing, because once you leave Australia, Australia ceases to be. — Bill Bryson

The market is the only critic that matters. — Walter Kirn

A horse blanket, Mel?
I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.'
Bran laughed a little unsteadly. 'Mel. A horse blanket. — Sherwood Smith

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that. — Ed Asner

Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. — Ronald Takaki

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you ... — Taylor Swift

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself. — Beverly Pepper

A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The moon is a loyal companion. — Tahereh Mafi

The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard and found itself alone. Later, as these islands grew older, they turned their misfortune into virtue, learned to accept their cragginess, their misshapen coasts, ragged where they'd been torn. They acquired grace. — Anne Michaels

That was probably the reason that history was more of an oracle than a science. Perhaps later, muck later, it would be taught by means of tables of statistics, supplemented by anatomical sections. The teacher would draw on the blackboard an algebraic formula representing the conditions of life of the masses of a particular nation at a particular period: 'Here, citizens, you see the objective factors which conditioned this historical process. — Arthur Koestler

I was married for four years, then success happened. — Jackee Harry

Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end. — Robert E. Neale

I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat. — Erma Bombeck

I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to. — Amy Heckerling

Avoid irritation more than exposure to the sun ... In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' ... — Joseph Conrad