Barack Obama Quotes
We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.
Quotes to Explore
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.
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For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
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It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.
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A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
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I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me — ‘Test pilot for pies’ — but I’ve always been a size 14-16 and been fine with it. I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn’t.
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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.
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No man has any influence or power for good when angry.
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I feel like the sport is coming to me.
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If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.
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We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.
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We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.
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Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.
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We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.
