Usa Quotes - Page 20

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.

First of all, it is clear that our efforts in Korea can blunt the will of the Chinese Communists to continue the struggle. The United Nations forces have put up a tremendous fight in Korea and have inflicted very heavy casualties on the enemy. Our forces are stronger now than they have been before. These are plain facts which may discourage the Chinese Communists from continuing their attack.

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

Thousand points of light.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Being a bad writer a thousand times first.

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.