Yes We Can quotes

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.