President Barack Obama Famous Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is an inner journey, the ultimate destination of self-discovery rather than a desired destination. — Marjorie Daun Timberlake-Linton

I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect ... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without. — Vanessa Paradis

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people. — Dieter Rams

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad! — Mariella Frostrup

The most intriguing correlations obtained by the Minnesota study were also among the most unexpected. Social and political attitudes between twins reared apart were just as concordant as those between twins reared together: liberals clustered with liberals, and orthodoxy was twinned with orthodoxy. Religiosity and faith were also strikingly concordant: twins were either both faithful or both nonreligious. Traditionalism, or "willingness to yield to authority," was significantly correlated. So were characteristics such as "assertiveness, drive for leadership, and a taste for attention." Other — Siddhartha Mukherjee

My past thoughts created today's me. — Debasish Mridha

Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values. — Kenneth D. Wald

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. — George Will

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history. — Seann William Scott

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul. — James Hillman

I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM. — Philip K. Dick

If we're not careful, mindset, preconception, or subsequent turns can affect even what we think we observed in the first place. — Anonymous

You wanted to ride, my nasty girl, so fucking ride," Sander challenged. — Setta Jay

And in that moment, I saw the horizon unbounded and I reeled with the vastness of it. What new shores would I discover if I could only travel those few inches? A storm - a tempest in the pit of my stomach - but I was the skiff tossed on the waves, and my father's lesson like thunder in my ears: don't get too close. Still, the temptation was there. — Heidi Heilig

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like. — Ambrose Bierce