Theirs Quotes

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.