Anna Quindlen Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

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  Courage, Heart, Character

• People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

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  Dog, Character, Cat

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.122, Ballantine Books

• Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.

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  Reading, Writing, School

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.184, Random House

• part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

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  War, Character, Today

• Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

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  Character, Loss, Muse

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.158, Random House

• Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

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  Character, Thinking, Personality

• Americans like warm characters. It's why, no matter what he did in the early days, they kind of resonated to Bill Clinton because he seems like a guy that you could sit down and have a burger and a beer with. It's even why, despite the fact that he sometimes seemed to be not firing on all cylinders, lots of them still like George W. Bush - because he seemed like the kind of guy you could have a burger and a beer with.

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  Character, Beer, Guy

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