Them Quotes

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Again, 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.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.