Them Quotes

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

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.