A Quote by Barack Obama

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
American - President
Born: August 4, 1961

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

Steven Grayhm

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Mike Tomlin

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Richard M. Nixon

It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration.

Gustave Eiffel

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Jim Rohn

Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.

Michael Ruppert

I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.

Rick Warren

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

Adam Carolla

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

Benjamin Jowett

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Lew Wallace

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.

Ron White

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

Reinhard Bonnke

For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect plurality, and to build, among ourselves, bridges and more bridges.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

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