Speechwriters For Obama Quotes & Sayings

When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past. — Carl Icahn

Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, and I, at least, was content that it should be so — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies. — Holly Black

Think before you write, while you write- and definitely after you have written. — Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

A man should not be made to answer for his family. — Eleanor Catton

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless — J.R.R. Tolkien

The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents' wedding. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If we want to reach them, our articulation of the problem has to avoid ascribing personal evil to them, while also being uncompromising in describing the dynamics of the problem. I cannot offer a formula for how to do this. The right words and strategies arise naturally from compassion: from the understanding that the bankers or whoever do as I would do, were I in their shoes. In other words, compassionate - and effective - words arise from a deeply felt realization of our common humanity. And this is possible only to the extent to which we have applied the same to ourselves. Truly, to be an effective activist requires an equivalent inner activism. — Charles Eisenstein

The sharp bite of pain that came from the cut on my lip made me wince, until his tongue came out and soothed it in a gesture so incredibly intimate, I felt my entire body tremble. — Ella Frank

I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director. — Barack Obama

You can do this, he thought. Just make it to that Hole. — James Dashner

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory. — Laura Mvula

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. — Marcus Aurelius

Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless. — Lewis Fry Richardson

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America. — Jon Anderson