Barack Obama Quotes

On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a year ago. There's not much of a difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage.

Barack Obama

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• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • You
  • Church
  • Bible

• I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Always

• My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Management

• I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Lost
  • Case
  • Lawyers

• I am happy with the response I am receiving for 'Kaabil.' Audiences' love is what we work for, after all.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Response

• I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Style
  • Create
  • Vintage

• In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Best
  • Same
  • India

• That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Animal
  • Literature

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Heart
  • True
  • Matters

• What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lost
  • Paradise

• His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.

  

  Kage Baker
  • May
  • Freedom

• Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.

  

  Pablo Neruda

• New worlds are always hard on old ideas.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• A certain amount of nothing in a dream deferred.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Dream

• Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Words

• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Important
  • Women
  • Peace

• Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • May
  • Suffering

• One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • Father
  • Value
  • Spiritual

• There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Washington
  • Threat
  • Bernie Sanders

• The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Fighting

• On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a year ago. There's not much of a difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage.

  

  Barack Obama