Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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• I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Politician
  • Asset

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Man
  • Party
  • Proud

• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

  

  Ian Smith
  • World
  • Years
  • Everything

• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Me

• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Power
  • Choose
  • Greatest

• The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Government
  • Rights

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Great
  • Give
  • Direction

• I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Try

• I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Feel
  • Class
  • Last

• I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Values
  • Your
  • Morals

• We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Movie
  • Always

• All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
  • Game
  • Stand

• The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Believe
  • Simple
  • Government

• Too much agreement kills the chat.

  

  John Jay Chapman

• Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First, your relationship with those characters is like they're bugs in a jar. There's no empathy. And secondly, you've got this clunky, chemistry-set interface between you and them, with bars to show how tired or angry they are. It's all tell not show.

  

  Dave Morris
  • Game
  • Relationship
  • Tired

• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Moral

• There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

  

  Aubrey Menen
  • God
  • Real
  • Laughter

• Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson