Barack Obama Quotes

My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is going to be a journey that takes some time.

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• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Morality
  • Inside
  • Conduct

• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Idea
  • Unity
  • Rendering

• I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Time
  • War
  • Help

• I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Words
  • Beginning
  • Islam

• The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Want
  • Best

• I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Married

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Song
  • Journey
  • End

• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • World
  • Change

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Time
  • Guy
  • You

• From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Success
  • Beginning
  • Selling

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Workout
  • Travelling

• Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Time
  • Me
  • Leader

• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  

  Sai Baba
  • God
  • Nature
  • Night

• Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

  

  Martina Hingis

• National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Gold

• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Human being

• My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is going to be a journey that takes some time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Journey