Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Lady Bird Johnson

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• I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Choice
  • Content
  • Blessings

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Window

• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Tangled

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Time
  • Nervous
  • Admit

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Today
  • Death
  • Illness

• Acting's boring.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Acting
  • Boring

• My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Place

• I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Sports

• If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Kind
  • Feel
  • Shame

• As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Worry

• I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Against

• My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Time
  • Walking

• 'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Small
  • Mean
  • Talk

• A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Country
  • Philistines
  • Backwoods

• Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Decision
  • Entrepreneur

• Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

  

  Seth Gabel
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Existence

• To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • May

• Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn't mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.

  

  Chuck Hagel
  • Time
  • Money
  • American

• Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson