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

• My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Book
  • Never

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• 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

• I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Chicago

• The key thing is confidence, and you get that from the actions that you take. It can be anything from getting chicks, being in a fight, having success at work, having a good family. A lot of that stuff comes from having confidence, so that's one of the biggest things.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Cat
  • Doe
  • Idols

• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • You
  • Meet

• The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

  

  Martin Buber
  • World

• 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