Quotes About Them

#1. I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all. - Author: Jill Scott

#2. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them. - Author: Michelle Erickson

#3. I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the soldiers and bullets that I hid from in Asmara. I would stand and fight them to keep Fili safe. - Author: Abeba Habtu

#4. When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't want them to be caricatures of themselves. We wanted them to live and breathe, and grow with the audience and with us. - Author: Jon Hurwitz

#5. It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore. - Author: Ashley Newell

#6. I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them. - Author: Danny Wallace

#7. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done. - Author: Josh Kaufman

#8. I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them. - Author: Michael Franks

#9. Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them. - Author: Dalai Lama

#10. I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published. - Author: Sigrid Undset

#11. Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them. - Author: Rick Riordan

#12. The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if. - Author: Joan Wickersham

#13. The key to beating the Dodgers is to keep them form hugging each other too much. - Author: Graig Nettles

#14. The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap. - Author: Anna Quindlen

#15. Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it. - Author: Tyga

#16. Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them. - Author: Jennifer Egan

#17. I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And also, unless asked, I don't judge. And if asked to judge - I would approach it socratically, I would approach it with questions. - Author: Tim Gunn

#18. Don't be silly. People never stop looking for love.
Yeah, some of them don't even stop AFTER they've found it. - Author: Teresa Medeiros

#19. I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter. - Author: Tori Kelly

#20. Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother. - Author: Boyle Roche

#21. We pitched 'Sightseers' as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like 'Dexter' came out, 'Breaking Bad' ... There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them. - Author: Alice Lowe

#22. They said, "You'll never find someone like me again!" I thanked them for wishing me well. ;) - Author: Steve Maraboli

#23. Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them. - Author: Gilbert Murray

#24. Focus on your own goals and how to achieve them. No one took your spot, there's room for all of us. - Author: Amy Schumer

#25. In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers like myself are on course to become the first generation of Americans who leave things in worse shape than they found them. - Author: David Walker

#26. The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe. - Author: George Eliot

#27. I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play. - Author: Lupita Nyong'o

#28. There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. - Author: James Baldwin

#29. I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be. - Author: Angie Stone

#30. Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect. - Author: Sean Berdy

#31. Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth. - Author: Miguel De Cervantes

#32. All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less about objects and more about the space that contains them. Still fewer photographs are about light itself. - Author: John Paul Caponigro

#33. I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them. - Author: Manu Bennett

#34. I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. - Author: Allen Tate

#35. Genuine acceptance is based on knowledge. You cant truly accept someone unless you know them. - Author: Paul Ellis

#36. She opened her eyes and touched her lips, as though he had just kissed them. She could taste him. - Author: Jean M. Grant

#37. The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#38. What are they going to do about it?"
"So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away sot hey can get on with their research."
Murtry chuckled. "God bless the eggheads. - Author: James S.A. Corey

#39. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed. - Author: Garth Brooks

#40. I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie. - Author: George R R Martin

#41. Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday. - Author: Taylor Swift

#42. Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice. - Author: David Parnas

#43. The holidays are only holy if we make them so. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#44. I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them. - Author: Vic Tayback

#45. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them. - Author: Gene Wolfe

#46. I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling - Author: Robert Fulghum

#47. Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop. - Author: Bob Seger

#48. Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care. - Author: Nora Roberts

#49. Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril. - Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

#50. We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them, - Author: Tiffany Shlain

#51. The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either. - Author: Marilynne Robinson

#52. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition. - Author: Charles Caleb Colton

#53. When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker. - Author: Mary Harron

#54. Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all. - Author: Hilary Mantel

#55. One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to. - Author: Kelly Jones

#56. The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them. - Author: Dean Koontz

#57. There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and - Author: Aristotle.

#58. There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set. - Author: Ben Kingsley

#59. The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. - Author: Theodor Schwenk

#60. Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be who and what they were? Or was the mystery what kept us coming back for more, slowly enticing us, knowing that once the truth was out, the appeal would be lost? - Author: Amber Lynn Natusch

#61. Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them. - Author: Frederick Nymeyer

#62. I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert. - Author: Bryce Courtenay

#63. Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no longer questioning me, for those eyes made me want to tell him everything. At the same time, those eyes revealed something to me. Was he in love with Alera? - Author: Cayla Kluver

#64. Unsettling because it reveals some possible branch of evolution in which sex organs will no longer exist. The bots won't need them, and perhaps without them, the entire concept of gender will disappear. - Author: Judd Trichter

#65. In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first. - Author: Tim Cope

#66. At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills. - Author: Ringo Starr

#67. No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take them out on others. So let's focus on how to get your hat back. - Author: Valerie Ormond

#68. People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes. - Author: Nomar Garciaparra

#69. Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions. - Author: Pema Chodron

#70. You must show no mercy ... nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you ... for your greatness will silence them all. - Author: The Ultimate Warrior

#71. Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived. - Author: Charles Caleb Colton

#72. What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them. - Author: Bartolome De Las Casas

#73. Third Covenant "monosacredness" is not a break with the earlier covenants; it transcends and includes them all. - Author: Albert J. LaChance

#74. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living. - Author: Alex Ebert

#75. I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile. - Author: Jack Black

#76. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it. - Author: Paul Neilan

#77. If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself. - Author: Lionel Trilling

#78. People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.' - Author: Johnny Carson

#79. It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination. - Author: Thornton Wilder

#80. The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They become like so many powerhouses beaming grace and love around them. - Author: Saint Basil

#81. She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her. - Author: David Brooks

#82. Don't be embarrassed,' she said, throwing an armful of clothing on the hook. 'I don't faint at the sight of a naked man. Triss Merigold, a friend, says if you've seen one, you've seen them all. - Author: Andrzej Sapkowski

#83. It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show. - Author: Andrew Dost

#84. Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all. - Author: Kathleen Troia McFarland

#85. There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington. - Author: Leo Hindery

#86. War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want. - Author: William T. Sherman

#87. One damn sure thing! - he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way. - Author: Robert A. Heinlein

#88. All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly. - Author: Damon Willis

#89. New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that. - Author: Landon Donovan

#90. I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them. - Author: Mary Ellen Mark

#91. Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be. - Author: Robin Sharma

#92. We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe. - Author: Harold S. Kushner

#93. It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn't know their purpose, they get lost. - Author: Emmanuel Jal

#94. The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. - Author: Laozi

#95. We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#96. Polly had always marveled ... that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose ... gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them. - Author: Sheri Holman

#97. There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them. - Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

#98. I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever. - Author: Michael Specter

#99. Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. Or perhaps the elves are right and there are no gods. But how can I know for sure?" - Pg 479 Brisingr - Author: Christopher Paolini

#100. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch. - Author: Dale Peck