Them Quotes

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

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.