barack obama quotes on change

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion. ~Author Unknown



The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler



Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us. ~Edmund Arthur Helps



I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. ~Leonardo da Vinci



Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968



There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. ~Hermione Gingold



The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~Kin Hubbard



In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~Marie Ebner-Eschenbach



A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ~Pam Brown



Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich



Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ~Don Marquis



The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence. ~Andre Kostelanetz



A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



On CBS Radio the news of Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. ~Alexander Kendrick



Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole. ~Judy Carter



The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program. ~Frederick Brooks



I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth



It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. ~Rose Macaulay



One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. ~Robert Benchley