Them Quotes

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

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.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

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.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.