Them Quotes

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Don't fight forces, use them.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.