Andrew Johnson Quotes

It is one thing to be elected President and quite another for a man to become President. Yesterday, you decisively became President of this great nation.

Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

The most important qualification is that the person I pick be ready to become president if something were to happen.

Feels right to have a woman follow President Obama, doesn't it?

Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

I'm not Superman. I can't handle all of these women.

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

I'm tired," she uttered complainingly. "I know you are." "You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud.

I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.

Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.

if you were really busy, you could almost forget about it, but when you stopped moving, it was murder

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you can't emotionally connect - and [Barack] Obama is not the greatest, but he can at least do it - then people won't be with you when the times are hard.

It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

There are times when you may be overwhelmed by the teachings of the Way. At such moments, it is important to continue with the original spirit of a beginner.

She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.