Top 100 Be Their Quotes
#1. We're going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don't look so suspicious; it's worked before.
Suzanne Collins
#2. When others cannot find something to hold onto ... we can reach out and be their anchor in that moment.
Aaron Woodall
#3. But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would *be* their lives.
Michael Chabon
#4. Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#5. The new race of warriors would be their hope, their salvation, their loves' destiny. But they too could be tainted. They too could be seduced by the black forces they had been created to fight against.
Madison Thorne Grey
#6. If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences ...
James Madison
#7. Once I was asked if I had to take a test with the school board to prove I was competent to teach my children. My answer, "God made me competent to teach my children when He ordained me to be their mother.
Jamerrill Stewart
#8. The unredeemed Spirits and their followers, their works, and all their doings---be their unrelenting enemy and try throughout your life to command them and never to serve them.
Abraham Von Worms
#9. This was where she belonged with Nur, right here, here in his songs. Here within the lyrics they were intimate, caught in the rythm of his words, proppelled by the substance of his dreams.
These songs would be their story and these lyrics their home.
Leila Aboulela
#10. A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.
Michael Mosley
#11. The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.
Jerry Yang
#12. This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
Alan Green
#13. Doesn't just about everybody disappoint their parents? They say all they want is for us to be happy, but what they really want is for us to be their do-over. Their second chance at life.
Eileen Cook
#14. Or maybe it's time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren't gods - just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I'm sure we can.
John Jackson Miller
#15. [ ... ] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.
A.C. Ping
#16. What I always knew about my parents was that they were in love, and this love had a fizz. It was exciting to be their child, to be around them. There was a dynamism between them, a charge.
Monique Roffey
#17. Mothers are supposed to be their children's biggest cheerleaders. Mothers are supposed to believe in their children, no matter what. Mothers will lie to themselves, if necessary, to do this.
Jodi Picoult
#18. When someone's lost, aimless and adrift
Take the time, give 'em a lift
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery
But today, you can be their gift.
Squire Rushnell
#19. I had to follow her 24/7 for weeks. It's suppose to be their way of keeping track of the Sisterhood. They make the new guys do it because it's boring and if you get caught you look like a sex offender.
Lisa Roecker
#20. I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.
Charles M. Schwab
#21. If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement.
Zygmunt Bauman
#22. Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#23. Peace to the spirits of my honored parents, respected be their remains, and immortalized their virtues! may time, while it moulders their frail relicks to dust, commit to tradition the record of their goodness...
Frances Burney
#24. When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
Warren Farrell
#25. If there were a Nation of Stupid People, I would be their queen.
Leisa Rayven
#26. The two most important questions in the world are:
How can I be the best version of myself &
How can I help others be their best version
Steven Aitchison
#27. Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.
Justin Trudeau
#28. Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.
Tommy Kirk
#29. Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
Joey Skaggs
#30. What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.
Robert Pape
#31. My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Wayne Dyer
#32. Cecy, help me to collect the ducklings, and put them back into the box! If we were to place your muff on top of them they will very likely believe it to be their mother, and settle down!
Georgette Heyer
#33. Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.
Philip Roth
#34. I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.
Jon Hamm
#35. May Ye All Wail, for the Destroyer of Nations is upon us. Your lands shall they trample and divide with rope. Your cities razed shall be, their dwellers expelled. The bat, owl and raven your homes shall infest, and the serpent will therein make its nest . . . Aen Ithlinnespeath The
Andrzej Sapkowski
#36. Such people never focus on their own goal, they always elect to pursue the goal which promises the most rapid success, and yet fail to recognise that this success will never be their own.
Timur Vermes
#37. The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net worth will be determined by what grows out of it.
Joey Reiman
#38. What if I can't be their hero? What if I'm destined to be the villain?~attributed to Harry Potter
Jacquel Chrissy May
#39. During my school and college days, the three Khans - Aamir, Salman and Shah Rukh - were superstars for me and will always be. Their movies were eagerly awaited every Friday.
Shahid Kapoor
#40. A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
#41. There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.
B. J. Porter
#42. It's very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration.
Wentworth Miller
#43. I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.
Miranda Kerr
#44. Due to their reluctance to tie
themselves down at a young age, they have the capacity as well
as the predisposition to be their own bosses and following their
own dreams.
Bernard Salt
#45. Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.
Jon Tester
#46. If Enron and Walmart got drunk in Vegas and had an evil corporate love child, Fiendish would be their rebellious teenage son." ~Kate
Cathy Yardley
#47. Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism.
We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#48. Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.
~unknown
Unknown
#49. I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and the people who send me to Washington to be their voice are opposed to them and this process.
Mike Ross
#50. What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.
Olympia Snowe
#51. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Hermann Hesse
#52. If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
Stuart Symington
#53. Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
Sean O'Casey
#54. Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty.
Stephenie Meyer
#56. There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.
Jacqueline Carey
#57. We are strange indeed among all the plants and animals, who unlike us know their place, and if they think of God at all do not imagine him to be their kin, or themselves to be his heirs.
Orson Scott Card
#58. The apostle Paul said it best. For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. How could they do anything but celebrate this moment? All of them would face it one day ... in a fraction of an instant, in the midst of a lifetime it would be their turn.
Karen Kingsbury
#59. They need me to be their sturdy unbending fortress.
So here I am.
Krista Ritchie
#60. If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.
Gene Simmons
#61. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.
Jane Austen
#62. We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and ... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. My brothers were my idols. I've always looked up to them and was proud to be their baby sister. I felt like they gave me some cool points, too.
Shelley Hennig
#64. Time, he thought, was a privilege, and in a just world this would be their bed, and this night not worth counting, it being the first of innumerable shared nights to come. But now he knew why men married, for then time was theirs, a privilege and a claim; your time is all mine, he would tell her.
Meredith Duran
#65. I think there's an awful lot of ball players with great skills, but whether or not they're going to be on winning teams is not going to be answered until you see how they fit in to a team or a program. If they don't, it may be their fault or it may be their coaches.
Tex Winter
#66. Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.
Tina Fey
#67. The people need poetry that will be their own secret
To keep them awake forever,
And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.
Osip Mandelstam
#68. Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#69. I don't find it surprising that super-old people are so odd and grumpy. Half their friends are dead, they feel like shit most of the time, and the next major event in their lives is going to be their last. They
Michael Marshall
#70. When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
Cormac McCarthy
#71. Read once that being someone's first love is great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.
Toni Aleo
#72. Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does.
J.K. Rowling
#73. Though invisible I would be their assuring voice of denial;
Ralph Ellison
#76. Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
H.P. Lovecraft
#77. I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.
Ivanka Trump
#78. What the Nazis themselves claimed to be their chief discovery - the role of the Jewish people in world politics - and their chief interest - persecution of Jews all over the world - have been regarded by public opinion as a pretext for winning the masses or an interesting device of demagogy.
Hannah Arendt
#79. The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
Jacques Delors
#80. The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#81. Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.
Laurence Sterne
#82. This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
Xavier Becerra
#83. [L]et them be their own Rorschach tests[.]
Evan Dara
#84. When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.
George Foreman
#85. I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
Gary Cooper
#86. Delwyth, Bethan, and Eira be their names - I midwifed each one, same year.
Lois Lowry
#87. She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.
Patricia Highsmith
#88. Some of my job consists of me drafting and making technical drawings. So everything I did back then has materialized into something substantial for me today. Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.
Aldis Hodge
#89. We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.
Sheryl Sandberg
#90. Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.
Robert X. Cringely
#91. Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting. Could be their life long dream,
and every time they ask for a pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.
Brian Regan
#92. He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.
Richard Ford
#93. If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner.
James Frey
#94. The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a fantasy figure for the purpose of persuading gullible Gentiles to accept the revolutionary ideas that would be their undoing.
Christine M. Johns
#95. I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.
John Gutfreund
#97. 45I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God. 46They shall know that I am the LORD their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them; I am the LORD their God.
Anonymous
#98. There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.
Eckhart Tolle
#99. The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. Bush
#100. The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.
Wes Boyd
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