Them Quotes

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.

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.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

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.

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.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.