#erica

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#given #good #many #most #over

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be. ↗

— Huston Smith

#granted #grew #i #missionaries #taking

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. ↗

— Kate Smith

#before #bless #committee #democratic #during

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#norman-mailer #stephen-rojack #dreams

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#america #bring #england #great #i

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#american #american foreign policy #foreign #foreign policy #gospel

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#america #area #enlarging #every #expanding

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. ↗

— Stendhal

#envy #far #far less #france #less

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#america #babies #big #countries #eating

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. ↗

— Andy Stern

#america #congress #country #deal #does