Gary Johnson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
-
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
-
I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
-
The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
-
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
-
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
-
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
-
I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.
-
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
-
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
-
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
-
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.
-
I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
-
Titles are an important part of a story and I take considerable care in choosing one. In fact, I cannot start a story until I have chosen a title.
-
When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
-
When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.
-
Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
-
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
-
One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
-
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
-
I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
-
When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
-
People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.
-
I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
