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)
“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
—Larry Speakes (b. 1939)
“There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It’s not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)