#johns

Everything needs love… and everything you do or don’t do is a reflection of how you love you! ↗

— Sanjo Jendayi

#love #reflection #sanjo-jendayi #you #love

Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. ↗

— John Johnson

#hope #john-johnson #people #size #men

Real MEN don't need a woman covering for him because a Real MAN IS a woman's covering! ↗

— Sanjo Jendayi

#covering #deserie-johnson #man #men #real

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#governance #iraq-war #lyndon-b-johnson #politics #united-states

Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens. 1. It is cold. So cold that the Department of Temperature Acknowledgment and Regulation in you brain gets the readings and says, "I can't deal with this. I'm out of here." It puts up the OUT TO LUNCH sign and passes all responsibility to the... 2. Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof, which gets all this gobbledygook from the temperature department that it can't understand. "This is so not our job," it says. So it just starts hitting random buttons, filling you with strange and unpleasant sensations, and calls the... 3. Office of Confusion and Panic, where there is always someone ready to hop on the phone the moment it rings. This office is at least willing to take some action. The Office of Confusion and Panic loves hitting buttons. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#maureen-johnson #the-jubilee-express #love

Maureen clapped her hands together. "Oh," she said in her elfin little voice. "It's pretty." "Pretty?" Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. "Maureen, what the hell- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#sebastian-morgenstern #simon-lewis #city-of-fallen-angels

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him. ↗

— David Bowie

#allowed #got #guy #had #him

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world. ↗

— Robert Caro

#country #creating #first #had #hill

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work. ↗

— Robert Caro

#leader #lyndon #lyndon johnson #made #majority

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. ↗

— Iris Chang

#afterwards #asked #because #book #emphasized