Barack Obama Quotes

We don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

Barack Obama

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• Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Money
  • Space
  • Ideas

• I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Think
  • Way
  • Office

• I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Believe
  • Champion
  • Now

• And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Year
  • Welcome
  • New Years

• I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Like
  • Rose
  • Bowl

• The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Wife

• The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • High
  • Car
  • Better

• I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Fashion
  • Charity
  • April

• Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Books
  • Wonderful
  • Very

• We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Live
  • America
  • Society

• Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Personality
  • End

• Smooth as the hickory wind that blows from Memphis down to Apalachicola.It's 'Hi, y'all, did you eat well? Come on in, I'm sure glad to know ya.'Don't let this old gold cross and this Allman Brothers t-shirt throw ya.It's cicadas making noise with the Southern voice.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Gold
  • Wind

• Under oak, ash and thorn My soul was born. Under thorn, oak and ash My body bent to the lash.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Soul

• El corazón es un infinito de pesadísimas cadenas, encadenando puñaditos de aire.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• There's this secret Korean taco/cupcake truck I go to. To find it, you have to bring a hard-boiled egg to this deli in Bushwick where they give you the address.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Truck

• For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Future
  • Forward
  • Cows

• And this is how I see it today: it’s not the neighborhood that’s sick, it’s not Naples, it’s the entire earth, it’s the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Universe
  • Neighborhood
  • Hiding

• We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Body
  • Facts
  • Shadow

• When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • Development
  • Code
  • Spontaneous

• We don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Peaceful
  • Weapon
  • Nuclear