That They Quotes

#1. Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

Marsden Wagner

#2. children treasure the hope that they might be like the children in books: secretly magical, part of some deeper, mysterious world that makes them something out of the ordinary.

Helen Macdonald

#3. She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

Elizabeth Montagu

#4. I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

Estelle

#5. Unlike white commentators, who were hamstrung by the fear that they would be labeled racist, I could voice my criticisms of the feudal, religious, and repressive mechanisms that were holding back women from Muslim communities.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#6. Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

Jeff Mangum

#7. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table.

Jesse Ventura

#8. When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

Paul Krugman

#9. The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty.

Hugh Nibley

#10. Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.

David Letterman

#11. We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

John McCain

#12. And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.

Auberon Herbert

#13. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was made known to them that they were called children of God, as it is written, 'Ye are the children of the Lord your God.'

Akiva Ben Joseph

#14. The Tanzanian government recognised there is a problem: that they don't have enough sterile syringes, that they are being reused probably four or five times each, and that this reuse is a massive contributor to their burden of healthcare.

Marc Koska

#15. I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

Nat Turner

#16. People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.

Ben Barnes

#17. It was a conceit to imagine that they knew the world; that they knew its every detail. Forces ever worked unseen, in elusive patterns no mortal mind could comprehend.

Steven Erikson

#18. Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

Cassandra Clare

#19. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

H.L. Mencken

#20. I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me
crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered with and now, wounded, go along in the way that they are able.

Elizabeth Berg

#21. You can't teach a dog not to bark, for 'tis God's will that they do,

Elizabeth Hoyt

#22. I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.

Debora Spar

#23. There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

Lemony Snicket

#24. When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

Trisha Yearwood

#25. People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

Adam Driver

#26. We've found that trusting people to do the right thing generally results in them doing the right thing. Allowing people to reward one another facilitates a culture of recognition and service, and is a way to show employees that they should be thinking like owners rather than serfs.

Laszlo Bock

#27. Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

Vaclav Havel

#28. I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

Will Arnett

#29. Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.

William James

#30. I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

Mos Def

#31. My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

Christopher Durang

#32. If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#33. The problem with greedy people, Pop once said to me, is that they think everyone else is as greedy as they are

Sabaa Tahir

#34. I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

Orhan Pamuk

#35. I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.

Emilie Autumn

#36. When I see Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity baying across the television screen, I find it hard to take them seriously. I assume that they must be saying what they do primarily to boost book sales or ratings, although I do wonder who would spend their precious evenings with such sourpusses.

Barack Obama

#37. White men project onto the Negro the primitive drives, the archaic powers, the uncontrolled instincts that they do not want to admit in themselves, of which they are unconscious, and that they therefore designate as the corresponding qualities of other people.

C. G. Jung

#38. Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.

Zooey Deschanel

#39. If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

Julie Benz

#40. The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult
problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were
impossible.

Freeman Dyson

#41. I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

Pam Gems

#42. The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.

David Sedaris

#43. I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

Mitchel Resnick

#44. I guess," he said, "that they remind me that you can find kindness and love in the strangest of places. Sometimes it's the very last

Chance Carter

#45. Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories ... that they're there and they want to be told.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#46. One of the biggest impediments for women is that they have never really understood, looked at or examined their own genitals. They have not really figured out what kind of stimulation and where feels best for them, so they are not able to guide a partner in this.

Gail Saltz

#47. The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Christian Bale

#48. There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

LL Cool J

#49. To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#50. I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#51. Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

George Crook

#52. He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that they had to be in love. Strangers would never want to hurt each other that badly.

Sherman Alexie

#53. Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.

Hope Jahren

#54. Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

Alice Walker

#55. I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

Steven Millhauser

#56. A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

Jay Wickre

#57. Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.

Marcel Proust

#58. his hands are smashed so badly that they look like an order of curly fries.

Joe Imhoff

#59. A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.

Edward Kennedy

#60. I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years
it took the experience of lived time
to realize that they really are the same thing.

Elif Batuman

#61. As we explore these possibilities we
must remember that they are just that
- not predictions or prophecies.

Gerard O'Neill

#62. One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#63. I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

Romeo Dallaire

#64. The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence,

Nicholas Eberstadt

#65. Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Frederick Lenz

#66. Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?'
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.

Kurt Vonnegut

#67. As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats.

Robert D. Kaplan

#68. I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

Josh Hartnett

#69. The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

Jim Goldberg

#70. When people say that they can only obey an authority in which they have total confidence, they are looking for an ideal father. . . . If the condition of obedience is emotional trust, the way is open to anarchy and the possible death of the community.

Jean Vanier

#71. I am grateful for all the military families that I've met. I wanted to spread hope and cheer to all; little did I know that they would be the ones to change my life the way they have!

Wynonna Judd

#72. As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Al Capp

#73. But even more important, I think hip-hop has bridged the culture gap. It brings white kids together with Black kids, brown kids with yellow kids. They all have something in common that they love. It gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes. People

Jeff Chang

#74. Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

Haruki Murakami

#75. I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

Jeff Bezos

#76. Then again, having people around was no guarantee that they'd make good company.

Jessica Lawson

#77. I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.

Christine Lakin

#78. My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

Jason Mraz

#79. It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

Jack Falahee

#80. Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.

Zoey Dean

#81. I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.

Dominic Cooper

#82. People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

Neil Gaiman

#83. Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.

Serinda Swan

#84. What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

Danger Mouse

#85. This is it, he thought. This is where we've filled ourselves up with so many questions that they're starting to overflow and become answers.

Terry Pratchett

#86. You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.

John Mackey

#87. The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Baruch Spinoza

#88. In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Eric S. Raymond

#89. In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

Richard Corliss

#90. It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.

Ruth Bernhard

#91. It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

William Penn

#92. Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be.

Toni Morrison

#93. Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

Edward Felten

#94. The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

John Travolta

#95. The best political figures create the impression that they find everyone they encounter to be what Abigail Adams said Jefferson was: one of the choice ones of the earth.

Jon Meacham

#96. There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In the studio, the creation part of this business is fun. But, when you see the fans letting you know that they enjoy what you're doing, that's why I keep doing what I do.

Trace Adkins

#97. Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked.

Steven Soderbergh

#98. And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

Stephen Cambone

#99. Religious people are so confident of having God by their side that they think they are superior to everyone else

Elif Shafak

#100. Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

William Wycherley