Then Quotes

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.