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Herbert Croly Quotes

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Herbert Croly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 23, 1869 - May 17, 1930

Topics

Life Work Purpose American Problem

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Jill Lepore

Life Marketing Crisis Young More

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

John Burroughs

Flower Me Baby Key Physics Earth

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

Jerry Heller

Time People Society Rest Doing Out

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

Jennifer Granholm

Mistake Weakness

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

John Green

Great Best You Got Like Sentences

Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment - some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they're younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.

John Darnielle

Time Art People Long Drama Mood

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

John Caudwell

Family Children Pride Want Way Own

I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.

Anna D. Shapiro

Moment Experience People Think Tell

Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.

John Sununu

Simple Politics Blame Tough Loss

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

John Prendergast

Courage Go Africa See I See

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Tom Wolfe

Painting Go See Without Days Theory

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.

Russell Pearce

Day American Year Citizens Every