Longobucco Oftalmologo Quotes & Sayings

One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done. — Barack Obama

See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office - I love to bring people into the Oval Office - right around the corner from here - and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person. — George W. Bush

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. — Pindar

In my conscious life, though, I cannot honestly say I feel proud to be white and ashamed to be black or proud to be black and ashamed to be white. I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I understand how those words got into the racial discourse, but I can't sign up to them. I'm not proud to be female either. I am not even proud to be human - I only love to be so. As I love to be female and I love to be black, and I love that I had a white father. It — Zadie Smith

I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen. — Jodi Picoult

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation. — John Buchan