Barack Obama: Frasi in inglese (pagina 22)

“A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”

“Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up”

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. … Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

“A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.”

“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there.
At least that's what I would choose to believe.”

“We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.”

“All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.”

“Change is never easy, but always possible.”

“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes….”

“Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.”

“It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

“You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.”

“To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.”

“I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.”

“There is no excuse for not trying.”

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”

“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”

“What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision.”

“My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.”