Them For Quotes

#1. She came back with the glass and her fingers, cold from holding the glass, touched mine, and I held them for a moment and then let them go slowly, as you let go of a dream when you wake with the sun in your face and you have been in an enchanted valley

Raymond Chandler

#2. Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

Jodi Picoult

#3. Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts

Geoffrey Perret

#4. I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. I've always been interested in the way males seem to need to start clubs, or cults, to keep girls out until they need them for sex. It comes from some weird immature tribal crap, I'm sure.

Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

#6. Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

Thomas Browne

#7. Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Lord Chesterfield

#8. He taught me that it's okay to be a star, but to never forget that there are millions of other stars out there waiting for someone to recognize them for what they are - to treat people as if they too are important, special, and full of light.

Emily Page

#9. I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#10. I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.

Colin Mochrie

#11. The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water ... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water ...

Ray Bradbury

#12. Sadie heard a flurry of wing snap as yellow, orange, and tiger-striped moths flew into the light. Dean stood haloed by moths that pulsed like slips of paper along his shoulders and arms. He lifted each one on his finger, naming them for her.

Susan Tekulve

#13. Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don't there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

Samuel Beckett

#14. It's hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.

Sarah Noffke

#15. Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public, fueling a furious competition among the news services to rewrite them for their subscribers during their window of exclusivity.

Alex Berenson

#16. A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#17. Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

Monica Bellucci

#18. I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.

Oscar Isaac

#19. The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. I envied Elizabeth- but I admired Groot. Because if you truly believed in the lightning bolts, why not do everything in your power to take them for yourself.

Robin Wasserman

#21. Handcuffs. Freaking handcuffs.
What are you doing with those?
Handcuffing you.
No, I mean why do you have them in the first place?
I'm saving them for a rainy day. These are new actually. It's like a "thinking of you" gift because I was thinking of you when I bought them.

B.B. Reid

#22. One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

Mignon McLaughlin

#23. He went out of the compartment and returned a few moments later with a small spirit stove and a pair of curling tongs. "I use them for the moustaches," he said, referring to the latter.

Agatha Christie

#24. Sometimes, life is like mountain climbing. After you've achieved your biggest goals, you must return to the starting point to complete the journey and share your story with others to encourage them for their climb.

Tom Cunningham

#25. SCHISMATRIX is a creeping sea-urchin of a book - spikey and odd. It isn't very elegant, and it lacks bilateral symmetry, but pieces of it break off inside people and stick with them for years.

Bruce Sterling

#26. Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Abraham Lincoln

#27. I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

James Branch Cabell

#28. The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Edward Abbey

#29. Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life.

Ruth Ozeki

#30. There should not be any excuse. If we don't like our heritages, we've the power to change them for good. Let's go beyond using lame excuses...

Assegid Habtewold

#31. You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

John Darnielle

#32. lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other's names. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice, all the size of her, boasting about the presents their husbands gave them for their birthdays

Edna O'Brien

#33. It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the Creator gave them to us as teachers. Now that I am old I look once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men.

Kent Nerburn

#34. These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov.

Howard Carter

#35. I've learned it's really important to work hard and keep your family and friends close. You've got to let them know how much you appreciate them for sticking by you.

Carrie Underwood

#36. You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

Shia Labeouf

#37. Look, how this ring encompasseth finger.
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;
Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.

William Shakespeare

#38. This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

Osama Bin Laden

#39. Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time.

Mzwakhe Mbuli

#40. My point is that things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long.

Liane Moriarty

#41. I hate them for not being in pain like me, hate them for being able to enjoy themselves. Hate myself for feeling that way.

Chevy Stevens

#42. I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"

Lars Von Trier

#43. It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that surrounds us, and storing them for future readers.

Alberto Manguel

#44. And I gave you some of those chocolate cupcakes with the squiggle of white frosting across the top. I buy those for your mother because she loved them and won't buy them for herself.

Marilynne Robinson

#45. Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.

Gao Xingjian

#46. They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.

Kyle Baker

#47. My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be.

Pete Sampras

#48. Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

Eric Hoffer

#49. These creatures have destroyed our lands. Murdered our people." Isana lifted her chin. "Pay them for it."
When Antillus Raucus looked up, his eyes were hard, cold, and clear. "Watch me.

Jim Butcher

#50. There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

#51. I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake
especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

J.D. Salinger

#52. For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

Henry Cloud

#53. I can hear then say, "You're welcome, Will."
When I thanked them for sending you from heaven.

Colleen Hoover

#54. Your mother rolls her eyes at the cat lapping grapefruit juice, says, Everything that comes into this house is crazy - whether we choose them for that or they get that way, I don't know.

Mary Karr

#55. Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.

Julie Burchill

#56. I signed a $150,000 contract with TNA Wrestling for a year. I ended up 8 appearances for 40 minutes. Then I signed a second contract and they didn't use me. So, I'd like to thank them for $300,000 for 40 minutes' worth of work.

Jonny Fairplay

#57. Surely there must be in a world of manifold beautiful things something among them for me. And always, while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it.

Mary MacLane

#58. Some men are like a church-organ
you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box
they have four or five thin jingles.

Austin O'Malley

#59. That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

Sylvia Plath

#60. Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

Andrew Garfield

#61. I'm a big proponent of 'Don't Ask, Don't tell,' in fact, I enforce it strictly on all of my dates. First, I don't ask them for sex, and then I warn them not to tell anyone after I'm through.

Zach Braff

#62. But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#63. Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

Teju Cole

#64. The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#65. I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Todd Rundgren

#66. Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do'
People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.

Eliphas Levi

#67. Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad - and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the greater good.

Emerson Hough

#68. Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

#69. My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#70. Don't wish that people would change. Accept them for who they are and keep on searching for your higher 'self

Matthew Donnelly

#71. He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

Carolyn Meyer

#72. I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

Steve Guttenberg

#73. There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

Roald Dahl

#74. And new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them, for I shall be no more!

Leo Tolstoy

#75. And on the other hand, you got people like Ligur and Hastur, who took such a dark delight in unpleasantness you might even have mistaken them for human. Crowley

Terry Pratchett

#76. The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

Heather Choate Davis

#77. In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.

Lemmy Kilmister

#78. What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

Billy Corgan

#79. I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

Zedd

#80. If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.

J.K. Simmons

#81. I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart is on my sleeve. It's not comfortable but ... I am an artist so it's useful and my friends are used to me getting teary at any moment.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#82. I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.

Abbas Kiarostami

#83. I thought to discourage aesthetics ... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

Marcel Duchamp

#84. The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ...

Kenneth Arrow

#85. no one can know how another person 'senses' the world. We just have to respect the person as they are. Accept their unique way of being. Embrace them for who they are not what you think they should be.

Tina J. Richardson

#86. Beggars inspired me with mingled feelings of love and fear. I knew that I ought to be kind to them, for they might not be what they seemed.

Elie Wiesel

#87. If the Holy Spirit is carefully and lovingly managing all our falls into sin and using them for God's glory and our good, then there is great cause for joy and peace whether you are leaping forward or crawling through the Christian life.

Barbara R. Duguid

#88. And if I fight, then for what?"
"For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

Joanne Greenberg

#89. Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I'm really comfortable in one.

Tom Ford

#90. I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

Ray Dalio

#91. The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

Aziz Ansari

#92. In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Chetan Bhagat

#93. What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire, we do not love them for their desire. If what we loved in them was their desire, then we should love them as our self. When

David Whyte

#94. Dozens of books. I wonder if she's read them all, or if she just needs them for comfort. Maybe she uses them as an escape from her real life.

Colleen Hoover

#95. Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries; file them for future reference.

Blanche Ebbutt

#96. About Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.

Lily Gardner

#97. Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.

Pat Benatar

#98. So the gods," Moash said, nursing his own drink, "were pleased that you solved problems on your own ... by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?"
"Hush," Rock said. "Is good story.

Brandon Sanderson

#99. In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

William Ralph Inge

#100. I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.

Richard Dean Anderson