Them Quotes

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

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.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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.