Quotes of: Johnson Keyword

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Life of Johnson, Vol 4

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Jody Williams

Christopher Johnson's Son: We go home now? Christopher Johnson: Yes.

District 9

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

Quentin Bryce

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

Henry Giroux

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Donna Brazile

We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Chief Scientist: I agree with those who say we could launch a pod. Lyndon Johnson: A pot? Chief Scientist: A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, spl...

The Right Stuff

Olson Johnson: [after Gabby Johnson's speech] Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Gabby Johnson for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. No...

Blazing Saddles

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Jack Johnson - On and on

What is the purpose of my life, is it doesn't have to do with learning to let go?

Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static Songbook

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Friedrich List

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Thomas Sowell

During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson.

Robert Dallek

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

Quentin Bryce