Them Quotes

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.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.