Top 100 Quotes About Caro
#1. Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
Robert Caro
#2. Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.
Ina Caro
#3. Don't patronize me, Caro", he said, sounding even angrier. "You think I don't know what it means to make this commitment but I do ... Don't dismiss how I feel just because ... just because I'm younger than you.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#4. Now that's a sight for sore eyes, Sebastian. Maybe I should just leave you here: the hotel maids might appreciate that. Or, better still, maybe I'll take a photograph of you on my phone. Dont worry, I wont post it on the internet, it'll just be my screen saver.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#6. My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'
Jane Caro
#7. If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.
Robert Caro
#8. In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
Robert Caro
#9. The second most powerful man in the country." All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking "nothing jobs" and making them into something - something big. And now, no sooner
Robert A. Caro
#10. My predictions are notably inaccurate.
Robert Caro
#11. I can't, Caro, it's out of my hands now. But I promise it's temporary. I just ... after all this time ... I wanted us to be able to spend more than a few hours together." He stared at his hands. "I don't know when I'll see you again," he mumbled. "I've already waited ten years.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#12. To a staff member who, after talking with a senator, said he "thought" he knew which way the senator was going to vote, he snarled, "What the fuck good is thinking to me? Thinking isn't good enough. Thinking is never good enough. I need to know!" Often, he didn't know.
Robert A. Caro
#13. Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
Robert Caro
#14. A laconic Texas lawmaker declined to use his considerable influence to intervene in a loud dispute between his colleagues. When asked why not, he said, They're not voting. If they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. If they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody.
Robert A. Caro
#15. He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;
Robert A. Caro
#16. It's always been you, Caro. The first time I saw you, I thought you were the most beautiful girl that I'd ever seen. I thought you must be a princess like Cinderella. It's only ever been you.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#17. Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
Robert Caro
#18. Famiglia isn't always blood, mio caro. Famiglia is built on bridges of love. Famiglia is there for you without condition. Famiglia supports you in your darkest moment of need.
Tillie Cole
#19. Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.
Robert Caro
#20. I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
Robert Caro
#21. When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know you have come into the presence of fire; that it is best not incautiously to touch that man; that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. - WOODROW WILSON
Robert A. Caro
#22. After he returned from Washington, Johnson came into Rowe's room and said, "I agree with everything you said." Perhaps he did agree - intellectually. But he didn't take the advice. He couldn't. He was beyond listening to warnings, as was demonstrated the next day, when the convention opened.
Robert A. Caro
#23. (LBJ) had what a journalist calls "a genius for analogy" - made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate
Robert A. Caro
#24. I am a lucky player; a powerful winning force surrounds me.
Mike Caro
#25. The common problem, yours and mine, everyone's/Is not to fancy what were fair in life/Provided it could be - but finding first/What may be and how to make it fair up to our means.
Robert A. Caro
#26. Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.
Robert Caro
#27. Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
Robert Caro
#28. I finish what I have to do in the office.
Robert Caro
#30. Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;
Robert A. Caro
#31. Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
Anthony Caro
#32. I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but, gentlemen, these men are not in the race.
Robert A. Caro
#33. Quietly, dispassionately, Russell would make sure the senator understood not only the reasons why he should take the same position on the bill that Russell was taking, but the reasons why he should take an opposing position.
Robert A. Caro
#34. Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.
Robert A. Caro
#35. I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.
Robert Caro
#36. From the earliest beginnings of Lyndon Johnson's political life - from his days at college when he had captured control of campus politics - his tactics had consistently revealed a pragmatism and a cynicism that had no discernible limits.
Robert A. Caro
#37. I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.
Mike Caro
#38. Once Lyndon replied that "My doctor says Scotch keeps my arteries open." "They don't have to be that wide open," she said with a smile.
Robert A. Caro
#39. The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward
Robert A. Caro
#40. If you can't come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics.
Robert A. Caro
#41. Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
Robert Caro
#42. To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.
Robert Caro
#43. Are you worried? About moving to Russia?" She smiled. "No, mio caro figlio. I'm not worried either." She kissed him. "My lovely, living boy," she said, kissing him between each word. "My hope" - kiss - "my happiness" - kiss - "my love, my life, my joy." Kiss, kiss, kiss.
Paullina Simons
#44. That speech (Daniel Webster's) raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
Robert A. Caro
#45. Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.
Anthony Caro
#46. Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.
Robert A. Caro
#47. I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
Robert Caro
#48. It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.
Mike Caro
#49. Strength with which President Kennedy dispatched his enemies" - a tribute couched in rather remarkable words: Johnson described Kennedy "when he looks you straight in the eye and puts that knife into you without flinching.
Robert A. Caro
#50. You win some, you lose some, and you keep it to yourself.
Mike Caro
#51. All losers exaggerate because they want you to know how bad they feel.
Mike Caro
#52. Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
Robert Caro
#53. He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.
Robert A. Caro
#54. They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.
Robert A. Caro
#55. MR. CALHOUN. Never, never. MR. WEBSTER. What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN. Always, always. MR. WEBSTER. And I honor him for it.
Robert A. Caro
#56. My mum always said you get more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding.
Caro Ramsay
#57. Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team.
Juan Ramon Lopez Caro
#58. The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
Robert Caro
#59. There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.
Robert Caro
#60. Caro: "Bite me."
Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.
Kristin Hannah
#61. The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.
Robert A. Caro
#62. Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.
Mike Caro
#63. Its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.
Robert A. Caro
#64. What am I supposed to do about you? I think you'd better tell me. Caro, because I don't have a fucking clue.
Robin York
#65. Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.
Robert A. Caro
#66. I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.
Robert Caro
#67. You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.
Robert Caro
#68. Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
Robert Caro
#69. Even Grace still imagined there might be words, the words that could reach Dora and that had so far, unaccountably, not been hit upon. Only Caro recognized that Dora's condition was exactly that: a condition, an irrational state requiring professional, or divine, intervention.
Shirley Hazzard
#70. For the record, Caro?" "Yeah?" "Hard as a fucking rock.
Robin York
#71. The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,
Robert A. Caro
#73. And, in fact, had Johnson's plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been "just the way it was.
Robert A. Caro
#74. But you can't prove God exists. And isn't that what all science is ultimately about? Proving theories about the universe?"
"Provability is not truth, Caro. Godel's incompleteness theorem tells us that, if we didn't already know it intuitively, which we do.
Anna Jarzab
#75. Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams.
Robert A. Caro
#76. Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit.
Mike Caro
#77. Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
Robert Caro
#78. The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
Robert Caro
#79. Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.
Robert A. Caro
#80. Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.
Anthony Caro
#82. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will";
Robert A. Caro
#83. Compra solamente lo necesario, no lo conveniete. Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo centimo, es caro.
Buy only what is necessary, not what is convenient. What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive.
Seneca.
#84. I rode Caro's bike down a hill with no hands, and then I went sock shopping because I was sad to say goodbye to Alfred, and the socks were cute, but there was this purple lace bra." She ground to a halt, cheeks steaming. "It was the same color as Alfred.
Debora Geary
#85. Senator Harding, who declared in his inaugural address that We seek no part in directing the destinies of the world.
Robert A. Caro
#86. Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe.
Robert A. Caro
#87. There are as many ways of living a good life as there are people living lives.
Jane Caro
#88. The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
Robert Caro
#89. In the beginning, everything was even money.
Mike Caro
#91. Luther King gave people "the feeling that they could be bigger and stronger and more courageous than they thought they could be," Bayard Rustin said - in part because of the powerful new weapon, non-violent resistance, that had been forged on the Montgomery battlefield.
Robert A. Caro
#92. I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
Robert Caro
#93. He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.
Robert A. Caro
#95. Be happy, Caro, because that's what you deserve.
I love you, I have always loved you, and where I go after this world, I will always love you.
Sempre e per sempre.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#96. Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a living is pretty poor,
Robert A. Caro
#97. I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction writers that the narrative is terribly important.
Robert Caro
#98. With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins
Robert A. Caro
#99. While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men.
Robert A. Caro
#100. Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.
Caro Clarke
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