Albert Sidney Johnston Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
-
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
-
The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
-
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
-
Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
-
There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
-
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
-
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
-
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
-
I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
-
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
-
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
-
Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
-
To act is to rest.
-
Brainwashed from rock and rap.
-
Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
-
I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.
-
When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.
-
There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
-
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
-
In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.
-
Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.
