Johan Huizinga Quotes

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

Johan Huizinga

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• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Time
  • Hope
  • You

• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • America
  • Democracy

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • America
  • Law
  • Mistake

• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • America
  • Two
  • Caribbean

• I don't understand anything about America's culture.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Understand

• If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • America
  • Reading
  • Gun

• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Mind
  • America

• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • American
  • Nice

• Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Me
  • Clear

• The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • America
  • Political
  • Stop

• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • America
  • House

• If you look at America, one of the great strengths of America is its university towns and the way a lot of their businesses and a lot of their innovation and enormous economic growth have come from reducing that gap, getting those universities directly involved in start-up businesses, green field businesses, new development businesses.

  

  Denis Napthine
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• Actually, I'd really love to do something in Bali, up in the mountains. A little restaurant with that scenery would be beautiful.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost two years, and writing, I have discovered, is a muscle: if it isn't exercised, it will atrophy.

  

  Jane Green
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • History

• The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

  

  Johan Huizinga
  • America