Barack Obama Quotes
If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.
Quotes to Explore
-
The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
-
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
-
The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
-
I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
-
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
-
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
-
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
-
The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
-
To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
-
Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
-
I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
-
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
-
Marilyn Monroe: What about the difference in our ages?
-
They never forgot That even the most dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
-
I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
-
The Candy Man can
-
For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
-
None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
-
There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.
-
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
-
The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.
-
There is a time when it’s necessary to lean in, to say the hard things, to not be silent when one of our sisters is teetering toward compromise. This is how we “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (v. 2). This is how we live out the beauty of the gospel—together.
-
For youngsters to see just modern or ballet or hip-hop is wrong. I want them to see a rich variety.
-
If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.
