Those Quotes

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.