Here we have the best Them Quotes from famous authors such as Michael Steele, Epictetus, Swami Sivananda, Ninon de L’Enclos, Benjamin Franklin. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don’t enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It’s not the law-abiding citizens, it’s not the person who uses it as a hobby.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
I absolutely adore cows. They’re the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Let them hate so long as they fear.
I’m not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
Your children can be around you all day, but if you don’t spend quality time with them and you don’t pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn’t matter that they’re just around you.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Let them eat cake.
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
I didn’t want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother’s car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
They may forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it – in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them – that’s huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I’m planning to test my own boundaries.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
There’s only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
Sometimes a villain is very quiet – it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Mom and Dad were the best. I never clashed with them.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they’ll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping my head above the water.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people‘s life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
If your team is in the trenches, you’ve got to be in the trenches with them.
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that’s basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you’re really stuck with them in some sense. You can’t return them to the wild.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
In every age ‘the good old days‘ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.
The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it’s just about how you react to them.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
To lead people walk behind them.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
I have made a lot of mistakes, but I am proud of them all.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.
A rising tide doesn’t raise people who don’t have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
I love fools‘ experiments. I am always making them.
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
I’m so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they’ve been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I’ve made. It’s been very good having them on my side.
It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they’re mine.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.
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.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.
Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.
I’m a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God’s greatest creations, I really do. They’re interesting and intriguing.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
I wouldn’t be where I am without my fans, and I am very thankful for them.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
Things present themselves to you, and it’s how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don’t we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it’s your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
I have lots of friends, but I’m probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn’t be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
The process of editing is what I enjoy most – putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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.
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you’ll build a great team.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.
Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas – ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
People come to the stadium to forget their lives for 90 minutes, and it’s up to us to give them satisfaction; to get them out of their chairs and to fall asleep with stars in their eyes.
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
A tailor is a person’s best friend as far as I’m concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don’t get the opportunities that I’m getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear – when you are the hammer, strike.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
You can’t win them all.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Don’t fight forces, use them.
I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I’m always looking forward to seeing what they’re going to become and what they’re going to be interested in later in life.
We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Everything happens for a reason. I’m used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what’s right for them and their family.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
As long as somebody ‘CTC,’ at the end of the day I’m with them. For all you that don’t know what CTC means, that’s ‘Cut The Check.’
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
‘Pretty Lady’ is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don’t think about them because you’ve narrowed your vision.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
I’m not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
No matter how old we become, we can still call them ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Father’ and put a child-like trust in them.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.
I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We’re afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, ‘What a jerk!’ It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.
When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
