Barack Obama Quotes

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that's just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.

I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

ʺThings are going to get worse before they get better, arenʹt they?ʺ

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

Life was a storm to wander through.