Them Quotes

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.