America Quotes

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.

I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.

Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you’ll always be a princess to me.

Is this a good time to pat your shoulder?

Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now.

I guessed princesses-in-training didn’t wear pants.

...I want it to be as easy as breathing for you to say yes.

Everybody's serious but me.

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'!

The superman exists and he's American.

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.

The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

I wanted to be his dear, his darling.

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your own, poor thing.

He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same.

No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.

I let myself be sad. I let myself think of him.

Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too.

The Swendish queen— whose name I couldn’t pronounce to save my life.

Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.