Barack Obama Quotes

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

Barack Obama

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • Strong
  • Peace

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessing

• We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • World
  • Best
  • Event

• I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • World
  • Down
  • Detail

• You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Mother

• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Whole

• The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Never
  • Oil

• I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Life
  • Men
  • Husband

• At the end of the day, your life is on the line when you're dealing with abusive men, and your life is more important than any man.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Life
  • Men
  • Important

• To truly love our own life, we must love all other life.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Life
  • Love
  • Own

• The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• As governor, I will work to ensure the Department of Environmental Protection issues the Climate Action Plan and will seek to implement the plan's recommendations.

  

  Katie McGinty
  • Work
  • Action

• The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Soul
  • Humanity
  • Fire

• The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • World
  • Humanity