Barack Obama 1991 Quotes & Sayings

There it was, all round them. It partook, she felt, carefully helping Mr. Bankes to a specially tender piece, of eternity. — Virginia Woolf

It was an ill-omened place. Death walked there in the sunlight. — Oscar Wilde

I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism. — Glenn Greenwald

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. — Alexander Pope

Buck up, suck up, and admit you fucked up. — Linda Hilton

It's only human to have low moments in life because if you don't, then you won't feel the high, exciting times. — Jessica Cox

I could have done so many things and I didn't. Why am I such a screwup? — Katie McGarry

The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions. — Alfie Kohn

I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride. — Robert Greene

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next. — Dinaw Mengestu

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life. — Rumi

Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march. — Jose Clemente Orozco