#ch

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#did #duty #feel #i #know

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#any #become #change #different #everyone

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#laws #other #repeal #such

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#angels #answer #charge #govern #man

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#between #called #century #difference #dining

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#arnold schwarzenegger #austrian #authority #criticised #denounced

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#being #chances #elvis #finding #good

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#being #chance #elvis #finding #frisbee

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#apart #back #cheese #down #edges