Them Quotes

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

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.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

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.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.