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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 97c0422 | every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism. | John Grisham | ||
| edc840c | Lucien had taught him that fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid - just don't show it. Jurors would not follow the lawyer with the quickest tongue or prettiest words. They would not follow the sharpest dresser. They would not follow a clown or court jester. They would not follow a lawyer who preached the loudest or fought the hardest. Lu.. | John Grisham | ||
| 3113790 | When you have no future, you live in the past, | John Grisham | ||
| 49c3694 | Booker Sistrunk sat awkwardly with his hands behind him and continued the mouthing: "You oughtta be ashamed of yourself, treating a brother like this." "The white guy's gettin' the same treatment," Ozzie said. "You're violating my civil rights." "And you're violatin' mine with your mouth. Now shut up or I'll lock you under the jail. We got a little basement down there." | John Grisham | ||
| 3f4587f | The Constitution names only three federal offenses: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. Today there are over forty-five hundred federal crimes, and the number continues to grow as Congress gets tougher on crime and federal prosecutors become more creative in finding ways to apply all their new laws. | John Grisham | ||
| 5559e77 | shook hands. She thanked him for his pro bono | John Grisham | ||
| 9c5720b | Justice cannot be equal where, simply as a result of his poverty, a defendant is denied the opportunity to participate meaningfully in a judicial proceeding in which his liberty is at stake. | John Grisham | ||
| e686ce9 | It must be pretty cool being a lawyer," she said in awe. "Cool" was not an adjective Jake would use. He was forced to admit to himself that it had been a long time since he viewed his profession as something other than tedious." | John Grisham | ||
| 8ecf370 | Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good. The main thing that keeps Krantz and Grisham and a lot of other gifted storytellers from being artistically good is that they don't have any talent for (or interest in) characterization-their compelling pl.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 8942d74 | A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together | John Grisham | ||
| a622780 | Plans--nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly. | John Grisham | ||
| dadd7d3 | Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up. | John Grisham | ||
| 825998f | This is the first time a guy on Date-Match has told the truth. I think it's a sign." "It's not." I shook my head. "And the model? How did you get someone to take all those pictures?" "It wasn't a model. It was my roommate." Her eyes widened as I stood up. "Wait a second! All the things I said to you on the phone were absolutely true. I am interested in politics, and I do love studying the law and keeping up with high profile cases." "What l.. | Whitney Gracia Williams | ||
| 8f83034 | He talked a lot about girls, too. His brother, Sam Houston Johnson, recalls that more than once, when he visited his brother at San Marcos, Lyndon, coming back into the room naked after a shower, would take his penis in his hand, and say: "Well, I've gotta take ol' Jumbo here and give him some exercise. I wonder who I'll fuck tonight." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 8ce33cf | and he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. "He used to say, 'I want only can do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can do people around. I don't want anybody who tells me that they can't do something.' " | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 1c8f77e | IS WHERE POWER GOES": the most significant factor in any equation that adds up to political power, Lyndon Johnson had assured his allies, is the individual, not the office; for a man with a gift for acquiring power, whatever office he held would become powerful--because of what he would make out of it. Johnson" | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 6d03715 | The second most powerful man in the country." All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking "nothing jobs" and making them into something--something big. And now, no sooner" | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 2fe133f | Richard Russell adored his wife. After they had been married for almost forty years, he sent her a note saying, "With a sense of love and gratitude that is overpowering, I can only say God bless you, idol of my heart." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 0dc7303 | Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed." | job leisure relaxation vocation | Robert A. Caro | |
| 1123575 | Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience-- a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask. | honoring-parents humility | Robert A. Caro | |
| 3667f4f | the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, a liberal immigration bill, some seventy different education bills--they're all passed during the 1960s by President Lyndon Johnson. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 7a2f313 | After a while, the writers of the Allen Room invited me to lunch, which we thereafter ate almost every day in the employees' cafeteria in the library basement. These writers included not just some who were already famous, but some who were, at the time, little better known than I was, like John Demaray, Lucy Komisar, Irene Mahoney and Susan Brownmiller, who was working on Against Our Will and would sit at the desk adjoining mine for the nex.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| b14b93a | At Boston University, where the Reverend King had been studying for his Ph.D., the faculty, impressed by him, had urged him to become an academic, but, although attracted by that prospect, he rejected it in favor of a southern pastorship; "That's where I'm needed," he told his wife, Coretta. He was to discount his role in the Montgomery boycott. "I just happened to be there," he was to say. "There comes a time when time itself is ready for .. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 0cb1228 | Freedom is never given to anybody, for the oppressor has you in domination because he plans to keep you there." And he went beyond Douglass to espouse a doctrine of passive, non-violent resistance. "Hate begets hate, violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness," King said. "Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.... This is a nonviolent protest. We are depen.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 80506f9 | BECAUSE THIS MONEY came from Texas, the rise of Lyndon Johnson sheds light on the new economic forces that surged out of the Southwest in the middle of the twentieth century, on the immense influence exerted over America's politics, its governmental institutions, its foreign and domestic policies by these forces: the oil and sulphur and gas and defense barons of the Southwest. As the robber barons of the last century looted the nation's ear.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 17777fa | S]he might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning. | strangeness woman | E.M. Forster | |
| 9ad5aaf | A laconic Texas lawmaker declined to use his considerable influence to intervene in a loud dispute between his colleagues. When asked why not, he said, "They're not voting. If they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. If they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody." | persuasion restraint | Robert A. Caro | |
| b9d5f71 | he saw that at its center were Coretta and Yoki, unharmed. And then, having made sure of that, Martin Luther King became very calm, with what Branch calls "the remote calm of a commander." Stepping back out on the porch, he held up his hand for silence. Everything was all right, he told the crowd. "Don't get panicky. Don't do anything panicky. Don't get your weapons. If you have weapons, take them home. He who lives by the sword will perish.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 7ebf13a | With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that "the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President leads, the trust, are long gone--gone, surely, with Watergate, but gone before that.... After Lyndon Johnson, after the ugly war that consumed him, trust in 'the President' was tarnished forever." That tarnishing revolutionized politics and government in the United States. The shredding of the delicate ye.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 4db65c0 | He (LBJ) played on their fears as he played on their hopes. | leadership manipulation motivation | Robert A. Caro | |
| 0c72715 | Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions. | education leadership motivation rhetoric | Robert A. Caro | |
| 3931c04 | fork and embarrassing him. And there was another dinner in Paris. Johnson decided, at the last minute, not to go. And Busby, who did go, recalled that a member of the French Senate came up to him and asked where Johnson was, and Busby answered, He couldn't come tonight. And the French senator said, Oh I was so looking | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 6e81c67 | In the twentieth century, with its eighteen American presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson was the greatest champion that black Americans and Mexican-Americans and indeed all Americans of color had in the White House, the greatest champion they had in all the halls of government. With the single exception of Lincoln, he was the greatest champion with a white skin that they had in the history of the Republic. He was to become the lawmaker for th.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 654e394 | BUT WHAT, really, had the People's Party--the farmers who called themselves "Alliancemen"--asked for? Only that when men found themselves at the mercy of forces too big for them to fight alone, government--their government--help them fight. What were the demands for railroad and bank regulation, for government loans, for public-works projects, but an expression of a belief that after men have banded together and formed a government, they ha.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| db81980 | Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy's sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 7c98d94 | Charity begins at home. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| c841f37 | Until the end of their lives, these men and women would tell stories about the summer they followed Lyndon Johnson and his Flying Windmill around Texas; as Oliver Knight of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram would write about one trip, "That mad dash from Navasota to Conroe in which I dodged stumps at 70 MPH just to keep up with that contraption will ever be green in my memory.") At the landing site, there would be the brief respite" | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 8827e7f | Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency. | status-quo | Robert A. Caro | |
| a829359 | its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members "could be dealt with only in bodies and droves." | leadership peer-pressure | Robert A. Caro | |
| c994c22 | Exercise can be used like a vaccine to prevent disease and a medication to treat it. If there were a drug with the same benefits as working out, it would instantly be the standard of care. | Bill Phillips | ||
| f01e636 | Senator Bill] O'Chee: What do I have to do to be an Australian, because my family has been in this country for a hundred and ten years [78-year-old woman on incoming telephone call]: It doesn't matter. O'Chee: I've got to look English, have I? Old Lady: Yes O'Chee: What about the Aboriginies? Old Lady: They're Australian, too. O'Chee: Can I just get this down for the record -- you can look Aboriginal and be an Australian, or you can look En.. | Phillip Knightley | ||
| ee923b5 | Although, if they did find out, then at least I wouldn't have to lie about it anymore. But I bet they'd be pretty freaked out. Maybe they would give the mirror away. Although it's bolted to the wall. If they couldn't get it off, maybe they would want to move. I'd have to go to another school. I bet Robin would miss me then. I hear another creak. The sound is coming from right next to my room. Which means it's my brother's door, and not my p.. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| f98495e | snow angel? | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| d7feefb | land. | Sarah Mlynowski |