Them Quotes

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.