barack obama quotes on change

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop? ~Woody Allen, Annie Hall



It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. ~Adlai Stevenson



A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ~Lucretia Mott



For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference. ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000



Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ~Robert Schuller



Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. ~Daniel Berrigan



God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~Saint Augustine



Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ~Robertson Davies



We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence. ~Proverb



When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the fire. ~Author Unknown



Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955



Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote



Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman



Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood



Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. ~Bert Murray



People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". ~Ken Burns



When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. ~Buddha



Originality is the art of concealing your source. ~Franklin P. Jones



What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes. ~Timothy Virkkala