Them Quotes

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

To lead people walk behind them.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.