Theirs Quotes

#1. To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, he had learned not to share evidence of his oddities as a way to distinguish himself from others, although he was happy and proud that they shared theirs with him

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. Best friends are the chicks who make your problems theirs so you guys can form a gangsta posse and beat those problems to hell.

Celia Kyle

#3. I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

Alice Sebold

#4. Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.

Alex Garland

#5. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#6. Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]
I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.

Anne Lister

#7. The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

Frans De Waal

#8. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.

Ayn Rand

#9. It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Tasha Alexander

#10. It was a message from her. A reminder - here among hundreds of people - of a moment that had been theirs alone.

Veronica Rossi

#11. I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

Neneh Cherry

#12. You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.

Richard Carrier

#13. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.

Shannon L. Alder

#14. As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#15. People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

Nick Nolte

#16. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
Less pleasing when possest;
The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.

Thomas Gray

#17. If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#18. America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we've been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don't want a cure. Not now. Not till we get our little taste, till our kids get theirs.

Heather Choate Davis

#19. To split the very sea into ours and theirs. Border at the Beach
And More White Sheets

Eileen Granfors

#20. Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

George Herbert

#21. She rode at the head of a shining line of black limos like the head raven in a convocation of black birds. Her husband had moved people, and, in so moving, had become their Lancelot Satterwhite, too. Something of him lived in them, was not hers, was now theirs.

Lauren Groff

#22. Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.

David A. Bednar

#23. business is neither a burden to bear nor a battle to win, but a chance to outgrow fear by helping others outgrow theirs. This

Devdutt Pattanaik

#24. It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs.

David Foster Wallace

#25. It appeared, after decades of being without a tribe, that he and his brother had found theirs.

J.R. Ward

#26. Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

Barbara Woodhouse

#27. People who use dirty methods to hurt others ... will be destroyed with methods that are even dirtier than theirs!! That's what I call justice!! Not to mention ... journalism! - Wolfgangina Lalla Getto

Tite Kubo

#28. You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.

Bryant McGill

#29. Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven

Leo Tolstoy

#30. Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us permission to play with unclean things. It's not our fault, it's theirs. We're just their children.

J.M. Coetzee

#31. I don't explain love, Bart. I don't think anyone can. It grows from day to day from having contact with that other person who understands your needs, and you understand theirs. It starts with a faltering flutter that touches your heart and makes you vulnerable to everything beautiful.

V.C. Andrews

#32. Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.

Jerry Spinelli

#33. We all have dreams, those who decide whether theirs are real, or fiction.
But, what if fiction doesn't exist?

Then your dreams are real, and your possibilities are endless.

Amelia E. S.

#34. Yunkai'i tend theirs. It was not that Dany harbored

George R R Martin

#35. Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Rodman Philbrick

#36. Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Bill Whittle

#37. There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

Ray Lewis

#38. The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

Justin Cronin

#39. Two boys, both in varsity football, kissing under the bleachers, muscular silhouettes merging against the deep purple sky. I wasn't the only one with a secret. In the grand scheme of things, my secret wasn't even as dangerous as some of theirs.

Leah Raeder

#40. The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

Daniel Gilbert

#41. HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Alice Walker

#42. We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.

Tian Dayton

#43. Remember the Hottentots?" asked James. "They've become the Khoi now, which means that the Germans will have to retire that wonderful word of theirs, Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentater, which means, as you know, one who attacks the aunt of a Hottentot potentate.

Alexander McCall Smith

#44. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Myrtle Reed

#45. [There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection.

Anne Frank

#46. If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to run their hands over the choice parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.

Perry Brass

#47. If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself ... and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Stephen King

#48. The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.

Alexander McCall Smith

#49. Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Victor Hugo

#50. Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#51. Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.

Winston S. Churchill

#52. Somewhere, someone is search for the pieces of you that mold well with theirs.

Nikki Rowe

#53. Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.

Rita Stradling

#54. Theirs was a forbidden love.

Jeffrey Brown

#55. As wretched as she was, she wanted Harry to be miserable, too. And yet, she was aware of an underlying sense of sadness. Theirs may have been the first war in which there were no winners, only losers.

Sharon Kay Penman

#56. When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

Ellen Gallagher

#57. It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

John Bruton

#58. We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#59. I blamed you for what other dragons did. Instead of judging you by your actions and heart, I judged you by theirs and by my own fear.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#60. With chemistry like theirs, this was the perfect setup for a fling ... and Sherry wanted to go out on a high note.
BRING ON THE ROADIE!

Rachel Harris

#61. This was what it was about. The feeling as if your heart beat right out of your chest and into theirs. Like you couldn't take another breath without the,. As if everything inside united and there were no questions. No uncertainties.

Nashoda Rose

#62. Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.

Ingeborg Bachmann

#63. What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

Dylan Moran

#64. No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

Kate Capshaw

#65. Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.

Michael Connelly

#66. The good man does not grieve
that other people do not recognize his merits.
His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

Confucius

#67. At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Ibrahim Babangida

#68. Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.

David Ben-Gurion

#69. Everybody knows how others should do their jobs - but they don't know how to do theirs.

Nabil N. Jamal

#70. Own your happiness and let people understand that they have to own theirs. If you make it your job to make people happy, you have made it your job to keep people happy.

Saji Ijiyemi

#71. When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!

Giancarlo Esposito

#72. Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen

Neal Shusterman

#73. Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.

Marcel Proust

#74. I like to make up songs. And it's my opinion that all these songs mean a lot to me, but that doesn't mean I think everything needs to leave the house. If it helps me through my life and doesn't bore anybody in theirs.

Todd Snider

#75. When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Ruth Rendell

#76. Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.

Randall Robinson

#77. A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

Genghis Khan

#78. If you don't work hard to achieve your own dreams, someone else will have you working hard to achieve theirs.

Jeremy Marcus Coates

#79. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.

Gordon Sinclair

#80. The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

Vincent Van Gogh

#81. Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal universe, just as you do theirs.

Nebo D. Lukovich

#82. shake him up. Get him out of his comfort zone so he could stop sneering at everybody else who was out of theirs. Get him thinking about something besides his own neuroses for a change.

Lev Grossman

#83. When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

#84. You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs.

Andrew Solomon

#85. I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

Marisha Pessl

#86. I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colours draining fast. I had to get away from that town.

John Fante

#87. Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

Charles Churchill

#88. The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family. Everything else was just so much smoke and lies.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#89. Before you ask for the people to rise up and take what's theirs, meet the people, because they're really, really, bafoons.

Doug Stanhope

#90. A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Chino Moreno

#91. Just Remember: The people that say, "your dreams are impossible " have already quit on theirs.

Grant Cardone

#92. Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

Ellen Hopkins

#93. Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.

Jonas Mekas

#94. You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

Francois Fenelon

#95. Unfortunately, honesty hasn't always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile Police Department. Before we can do our job, they've got to do theirs...

Ravi Howard

#96. I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

John Hurt

#97. When your love is so deep and selfless that it demands to be reciprocated , the people you love are forced-for your sake, not theirs - into becoming better human beings.

Lee Kravitz

#98. I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

Gina Rodriguez

#99. They would erect great temples, and cities built of bone and sinew, and their foulness would spread like a cancer until finally, a hundred years from now, Mother Earth would be theirs.

Chris Wooding

#100. Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

Aeschylus