Rereading America 9th Edition Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with France. Their effects are felt, and their influence already extends as well to the old world as the new. Our style and manner of thinking have undergone a revolution, more extraordinary than the political revolution of the country. We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears; and think with other thoughts, than those we formerly used. — Thomas Paine

In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in one hand and The Education of Henry Adams in the other, and because I was part of nothing I could observe everything without having anything personal invested in the findings. — William Monahan

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same. — Don Gibson

Be amazing. Be everywhere. Be real — Jason Calacanis

Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom. — Georgette Heyer

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. — C.L.R. James

The world is made up of words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The audiences certainly have [declined]. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows. — Evelyn Waugh

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely. — Thomas Hoving

As Katha Pollitt puts it: US invasions have made the work of Muslim feminists much more difficult. The last thing they need is for women's rights to be branded as the tool of the invaders and occupiers and cultural imperialists.11 — Nina Power

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates. — Tyler Joseph

There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that. — Andrew Mitchell

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear — Frank Lloyd Wright