"[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Exercise Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“I donâ€™t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all this.”
“I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.”

Source : "Republican Bob Corker Is Senate's Deal Maker". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. March 8, 2010.
“I spend quite a bit of time thinking about my students. I look at them, at their work, I listen to what they tell me, and try to figure out who they might become in the best of all possible worlds. This is not easy. Students try to give you clues; sometimes they look at you as if imploring you to understand something about them that they don't yet have the means to articulate. How can one succeed at this? And how can one do it 20 times over for all the students in a class? It's impossible, of course. I know this, but I try anyway. It's tiring.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.”
“There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people”
“I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.”
“Don't tell me words don't matter,”

Source : "Deval Patrick: Massachusetts' Idealist-in-Chief" by Sheryl Huggins Salomon, www.theroot.com. April 20, 2011.

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