Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973

Topics

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Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

Mel Carnahan

HealthQualityTrainingChildCare

Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.

Jean-Claude Juncker

DistanceAfricaEuropeMustItself

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

Matisyahu

MusicTimeMeVoiceLongEmotions

Sure, I had dreams of being a star when I was 18. I could've pushed it, too, but it wouldn't have happened any sooner. I'm lucky. What's happened has happened in spite of me.

Roy Clark

DreamsMeLuckyStarSureHappened

I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world.

JR

WorkChangeArtChange The World

Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about.

Judith Viorst

BookThoughtLaughWriteStarting

I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.

Jay Parini

GreatTransformationThinkingTrue

Our laws must be fixed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. We have to keep speaking out for common-sense reforms. If we do, we can beat the gun lobby and save lives.

Dick Durbin

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I love nothing more than taking my dog, Molly, for a long walk on Sunday morning. Then I'll indulge in some Bikram yoga or something fun like reflexology.

Donna Air

DogLoveMorningWalkFunLong

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Brian Mulroney

YouFollowAgendaOnceArticulate

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Petrarch

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It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Paul Virilio

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