Barack Obama Quotes

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

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• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Years
  • Down
  • Now

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Interesting

• Most computers today have built in backup software.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Today
  • Software
  • Computers

• People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Attention

• Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Triumph
  • Immortal
  • Throne

• I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• To eat, teeth must meet.

  

  Iris Murdoch

• Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • People
  • Help
  • Respect

• The untruth of the accusation, which they all knew well, only served to reinforce it ... By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Time
  • College

• Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Beginning
  • Thanks

• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• [nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Secure
  • Seeks
  • Moral Means

• We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Storm
  • Sunshine
  • Twilight

• Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Storm

• I love the smell of a man's skin.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Man
  • Smell

• Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Storm