"So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced."

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Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

Michael Fullilove

#Expectations Quotes #Victim Quotes #Barack Quotes

“If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.”
“You cannot be the good all the time â€” sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]”
“I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.”
“You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less.”
“Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.”
“The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.”
“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.”

Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich (1977). “Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation”
“I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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