Barack Obama Quotes
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
Quotes to Explore
-
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
-
My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
-
I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
-
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
-
I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
-
I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
-
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
-
In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
-
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
-
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
-
For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
-
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
-
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
-
I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
-
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
-
Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
-
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
-
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
-
It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
-
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
-
Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.
-
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
-
Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.
-
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
