Barack Obama Quotes

Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.

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• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Help
  • Loved

• It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Struggle

• Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Expectation

• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Never
  • Guess

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• I don't believe in miracles.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Believe
  • Miracles

• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Civilization
  • Theater
  • Were

• I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Game
  • Games

• When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

  

  Kaskade
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Remember
  • You
  • Forget

• Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Humanity
  • Silver

• Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

  

  Iman
  • English
  • Language
  • Better

• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• 'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Way
  • Moment

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!

  

  Cara Black
  • Motorcycle
  • Once
  • Morocco

• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Art
  • Judge
  • Creative

• I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Band

• I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.

  

  John Hillcoat

• There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Vision
  • Sorrow
  • Convinced

• The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

  

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones
  • Power
  • Free
  • Spiritual

• I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Marriage

• Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Vision