Andrew Johnson Quotes

No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Andrew Johnson

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• I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Amazing
  • Never
  • Jewelry

• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

  

  Tacitus
  • Woman
  • Chastity

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Think
  • You
  • End

• I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Before

• I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Feel

• There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

  

  Candice Olson
  • House
  • Black
  • Color

• It's just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe in the show and want it to continue, but they just unfortunately can't afford it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Believe
  • Live
  • May

• I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Death
  • Lunch
  • Box

• Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Different
  • Action
  • Ways

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Same

• I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • She
  • Think
  • Game

• I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Know

• If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Cold

• Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

  

  Jack London
  • Life

• Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Country

• Judges have their own point of view, and we have to respect them for that. Rather than feeling bad, we respect our judges and their opinions.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Respect

• I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Friend
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.

  

  Judah Friedlander
  • Career
  • Play
  • Characters

• When I don't enjoy it anymore, I'll stop. But I think as long as people want me to be where the action is, I'll be there. I just love to play tennis.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Shopping

• No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

  

  Andrew Johnson