Them Quotes

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.