Quotes of: Barack Keyword

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

River of Stars

It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.

River of Stars

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

Something Borrowed

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

Something Borrowed

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

Such Is My Beloved

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

Something Blue

[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

My Beloved World

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

My Beloved World

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.

My Beloved World

and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?

Love the One You're With

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

Love the One You're With

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.

Tigana

I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.

Tigana

Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!

The One & Only

It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom.

Promiscuities

We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.

The Quarry And The Lot

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?

Vagina: A New Biography

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Andrew Cuomo

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln