Them Quotes

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.