Them Quotes

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

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.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.