C. R. Johnson Quotes

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Life moves on and so should we

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

I love driving the cool cars, but there is nothing like driving a pickup truck.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage.

A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.

No one likes change... but babies in diapers.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Don't ever lose sight of who you are and your own power.

It doesn't matter what your name is!

Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.