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 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

• He walks away,The sun goes down,He takes the day but I'm grownAnd in your way,In this blue shadeMy tears dry on their own.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Sun
  • Blue
  • Tears

• When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • Evil

• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.

  

  John Webster
  • Light
  • Shine

• Love doesn't exactly come with an off switch.

  

  S.C. Stephens

• It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Fight
  • Triumph

• ... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It is natural; like poetry, the very reason for the existence of mathematics is that it expresses thoughts and feelings which we cannot express in mundane everyday language.

  

  Alexandre Borovik
  • Thoughts
  • Mathematics
  • Expresses

• 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