Them Quotes

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.