Them Quotes

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.