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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 55d4b5c | To a staff member who, after talking with a senator, said he "thought" he knew which way the senator was going to vote, he snarled, "What the fuck good is thinking to me? Thinking isn't good enough. Thinking is never good enough. I need to know!" Often, he didn't know." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 9ce0aac | LBJ) had what a journalist calls "a genius for analogy"-- made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate" | communication | Robert A. Caro | |
| 7b0fff1 | It was as a result of his courage that two white men were on trial for killing a Negro, a trial in which, whatever the result, "there is a kind of majesty. And we owe that sight to Mose Wright, who was condemned to bow all his life, and had enough left to raise his head and look the enemy in those terrible eyes when he was sixty-four." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 7ecf96b | Emmett Till's murder" instilled in Anne Moody, a fourteen-year-old black girl from Alabama, "the fear of being killed just because I was black." It was the senselessness of the murder of the fourteen-year-old boy that she couldn't get out of her mind, she was to say. "I didn't know what one had to do or not do as a Negro not to be killed. Probably just being a Negro period was enough, I thought." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 909029b | Johnson, who had been reading a newspaper in the back seat, "suddenly ... lowered the newspaper and leaned forward," and said, " 'Chief, does it bother you when people don't call you by name?' " Parker was to recall that "I answered cautiously but honestly, 'Well, sir, I do wonder. My name is Robert Parker.' " And that was evidently not an answer acceptable to Johnson. "Johnson slammed the paper onto the seat as if he was slapping my face. .. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 21f6e5c | He told them a story--"the little baby in the cradle," as a student would call it. "He would tell us that one day we might say the baby would be a teacher. Maybe the next day we'd say the baby would be a doctor. And one day we might say the baby--any baby--might grow up to be President of the United States." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 213100d | I swore then and there," Lyndon Johnson was to say, "that if I ever had a chance to help those underprivileged kids I was going to do it." It was at Cotulla, Lyndon Johnson was to say, "that my dream began of an America ... where race, religion, language and color didn't count against you." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| f3230d8 | he thought, "My own R. B. Russell, Jr.--I was crazy with happiness." He said then what he was to repeat many times: "That is me living all over again." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| a1d6b94 | The common problem, yours and mine, everyone's/Is not to fancy what were fair in life/Provided it could be--but finding first/What may be and how to make it fair up to our means. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| eec38ae | Nothing he has ever done has been tainted by legality [Robert Moses quoting an anecdote about himself]. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| e058016 | Raising the subject of East Tremont with Commissioner Moses, I asked him the most innocuous question I could think of: Wasn't it more difficult to build an expressway in the city rather than a parkway in the country? He waved his hand dismissively: "Oh, no, no, no," he said. "There are more people in the way--that's all. There's very little real hardship in the thing. There's a little discomfort, and even that is greatly exaggerated." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| f40e4f8 | One of the wise, practical people around the table" urged Johnson not to press for civil rights in his first speech, because there was no chance of passage, and a President shouldn't waste his power on lost causes--no matter how worthy the cause might be. "The presidency has only a certain amount of coinage to expend, and you oughtn't to expend it on this," he said. "Well, what the hell's the presidency for?" Lyndon Johnson replied." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| e2db50f | Why political power? Because political power shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 40a0b28 | Russell answered, "Well, no--well, it certainly has permitted me to have more hours to work ... but I would not recommend it to anyone. If I had my life to do over again, I would certainly get married." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| be56efc | The belief that "a political system created in a much simpler economic era still affords the people effective control through their votes over the complex industrial state which has come into being" is a popular delusion." | Robert A. Caro | ||
| eeecb38 | dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 6c2373c | You're never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. Caro, if you don't stop thinking with your fingers | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 3390d1a | I'VE BEEN ENCOUNTERING questions of race, of segregation--of America's great crime--all my professional life. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| fa7a32d | Johnson's voting record--a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day--was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation--any civil rights legislation. In Senate and House alike, his record was an unbroken one of votes against every civil rights bill that had ever come to a vote: against .. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| abb5b9a | shit," he whispered as the words on the tiny screen blurred in front of him. He'd run" | Stephen W. Frey | ||
| 0f4e53b | The best relationship you ever know will be the one in which you love each other for your faults--not despite them. | Stephen W. Frey | ||
| 3fa9ff9 | Bill Phillips, one of his successors as chairman, captured the spirit in his mantra: "Work hard. Play hard. Sleep fast." | Kenneth Roman | ||
| e015a35 | Before the invention of the GDP, economists were rarely quoted by the press, but in the years after World War II they became a fixture in the papers. They had mastered a trick no one else could do: managing reality and predicting the future. Increasingly, the economy was regarded as a machine with levers that politicians could pull to promote "growth." In 1949, the inventor and economist Bill Phillips even constructed a real machine from pl.. | Rutger Bregman | ||
| ccb31d0 | Bucky lived and worked to help the world. He didn't live to pay his bills, to plan for retirement, to make sure he had enough at any time, to make sure he could afford the next project, or to do anything. He felt that if he were doing the things that he was inspired to do to help the world, all those things would be taken care of by the One that commissioned him to do the work. I know that most people on hearing this are prone to think, of .. | Phillip M. Pierson | ||
| b067b1a | You have been talking to Seth," I say. "I'm going to have to have a chat with him about privacy." Matt stills. "Sorry. I was just teasing. I won't do it anymore. Seth very offhandedly told me about your breakup. He wasn't ratting you out or anything." "That's good to know." "You're mad at me." "Embarrassed that you have intimate knowledge of my sex life." I finish off my pickle and dust my hands together. "I do have to get back to work," I .. | Tammy Falkner | ||
| 849874a | NEWS FROM ABROAD WAS encouraging, but living conditions were becoming more difficult. American canned goods, clothing and medicines had disappeared early in 1942. Now, by late 1943, we were rationed on rice, lard, sugar, matches and coconuts. We had long since been given a cloth allowance, and gas and electricity had long been stringently rationed. If we used more than we were allowed, our bill was doubled and we were fined. If we offended .. | Claire Phillips | ||
| 0c4e6b6 | Jim Cramer's Mad Money is one of the most popular shows on CNBC, a cable TV network that specializes in business and financial news. Cramer, who mostly offers investment advice, is known for his sense of showmanship. But few viewers were prepared for his outburst on August 3, 2007, when he began screaming about what he saw as inadequate action from the Federal Reserve: "Bernanke is being an academic! It is no time to be an academic. . . . H.. | Margaret Ray | ||
| a26b897 | Exhausted by the stresses, Phillip was called home after four years, and retired to Bath. Apart from founding Sydney, he had one other notable achievement. In 1814, he managed to die by falling from a wheelchair and out of an upstairs window. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 127a082 | Basically, Sam Phillips recorded Bill Haley, Johnny Cash, and all those other Memphis guys; Chuck Berry played the top two strings; Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show above the waist; the Beatles made all the girls squirm by singing about wanting to hold their "hands"; Ray Davies got lost in a sunset; Pete Townshend smashed his guitar; Brian Wilson heard magic in his head and made it come out of a studio; the Rolling Stones urinated on .. | Frank Portman | ||
| 1b2473b | You believe that you keep yourself safe, she thought. You lock up your mind and guard your reactions so nobody, not an interrogator or a parent or a friend, will break in. You earn a graduate degree and a good position. You keep your savings in foreign currency and you pay your bills on time. When your colleagues ask you about your home life, you don't answer. You work harder. You exercise. Your clothing flatters. You keep the edge of your .. | Julia Phillips | ||
| 0fc6e90 | many queer things passed through it as through | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d5e23f8 | Our Gaelic language and culture has prevailed. | Alex Salmond | ||
| 21355d6 | Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 7a2ab24 | her horse, Basil. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 2c08ad3 | She named her horse Basil? That's the worst name for a horse I ever heard. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 6f11389 | something. Pi | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 06de327 | her lips | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| aa65504 | We found a puppy. In the ... um ... backyard. Yes! The backyard! And then we ... went to see if any of our neighbors lost a puppy. That's why we didn't hear you calling earlier. We were outside. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 2f8d1a2 | You're also kind of a Hufflepuff, don't you think?" Leela asks. "Hardworking, loyal . . . Although last night you were a total Gryffindor. So brave." "Maybe I'm Divergent," I say." | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 64f12e4 | Oh!" Karimah says. "It's one minute to midnight. You and Jonah and Prince had better hurry to the room of mirrors. One, two --" | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 79ba5e1 | After | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 260baf4 | I spot my jewelry box on my dresser and think about Lana. I had wanted her to accept her life as is, but she wanted to fight for her dreams. Sure, sometimes you have to get what you get and not get upset. But maybe other times, you have to follow your heart and go after what you really want. Take a risk. Be brave. I guess part of growing up is learning when to do which. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 5c2d359 | if Robin or Frankie wanted to sleep for a hundred years my feelings | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 5f68bfe | Jonah has that strange look on his face. He must have another of Maryrose's memories. Probably that she once sang a lullaby on a windy day. OR SOMETHING ELSE TOTALLY USELESS. "Is it about canoeing?" I ask, trying to be positive. He scratches his head. "It is! Maryrose was good at canoeing!" Oh! Yay! "Did she ever stop a boat?" "Yes!" he exclaims. Great! "How?" I ask. "With paddles!" he says. Argh. "Thanks for nothing, Maryrose's memories!" .. | Sarah Mlynowski |