#america

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#beautiful-confidence #beauty #being-yourself #confident #happiness

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#escape #eve #humor #paradise #sarcasm

cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group. Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276 ↗

— Cal Jillson

#poverty #dreams

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#immigration #equality

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

— Kiera Cass

#change #goodbye #love #maxon #relationship

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you. ↗

— Clotaire Rapaille

#americans #code #culture #divine #god

I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial. ↗

— Mark Galli

#church #denial #praise-and-worship #death

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen. ↗

— Harry Reid

#american #american people #benefit #cuts #debt

The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. ↗

— Zoltan Istvan

#absurdism #american-dream #culture #modern-society #society

The rancid odor mixed with the dust, death, and confusion as they awaited those who could clean up the mess and make death official. ↗

— G.G. Collins

#ghosts #native-american #paranormal-mystery #psychic-medium #spirit-animal