Famous quotes containing the words challenges, americas, national and/or identity:
“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)