Them Quotes

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.