Top 100 Them They Quotes
#1. The wise begin with whys." Everyone wants to be happy, healthy, and successful, but wanting is rarely an effective strategy for getting. Those who overcome the temptations of mediocrity and achieve everything they want in life have an extraordinarily compelling why that drives them. They
Hal Elrod
#2. The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
#3. Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
John Sergeant Wise
#4. In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
F. Sionil Jose
#5. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for sometime.
C.S. Lewis
#6. I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.
Sarah Zettel
#7. Relationships carry the whole universe within them. They can be everything, nothing, here, then gone. One moment, loving someone makes you shine; the next, it feels like matter and antimatter colliding.
Judith Orloff
#8. Most of the people I met on the PCT passed only briefly through my life, but I was enriched by each of them. They made me laugh they made me think, they made me go on another day, and most of all, they made me trust entirely in the kindness of strangers.
Cheryl Strayed
#9. It was not just a touch, an action. It was a simplification of both of them: They were no longer Noah Czerny and Blue Sargent. They were now just him and her. Not even that. They were only the time that they held between them.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming ...
Diana Vreeland
#11. Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.
Cecelia Ahern
#12. Our ideas are like boomerangs,when you throw them they are destined to come back.
Pradeep Chaswal
#13. The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
Alice Sebold
#14. Love and Friendship, when you have them or lose them they are much like the Greek story of Icarus...
You can make you feel like you're soaring above the clouds with happiness when you have them or feel like you are plummeting to the depths of hell with despair when you lose them.
Anonymous
#15. There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
Thomas Hardy
#16. Codependents make great employees. They don't complain; they do more than their share; they do whatever is asked of them; they please people; and they try to do their work perfectly - at least for a while, until they become angry and resentful.
Melody Beattie
#17. Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.
Walt Whitman
#18. I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
Jackie Collins
#19. Sly Boots had betrayed them. They had lost the skeletons.
Claire Legrand
#20. There are a few things that you have to understand - I cannot give any proofs for them, they are beyond proofs. Only your experience will give you the proof.
Osho
#21. This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.
Donny Osmond
#23. I've just been to Greece to see the buildings there,' said Professor Silenus. 'Did you like them?' 'They are unspeakably ugly. But there were some nice goats.
Evelyn Waugh
#24. I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.
Dennis Muren
#25. Your friends and your family, if you're close to them, they won't let you get too far from who you were or from who you are. And so I love staying close to people who've always known me. That's probably the best leavening that you could possibly have.
Condoleezza Rice
#26. There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.
Maynard James Keenan
#27. In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.
Zoe Cassavetes
#28. If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fck off.
Gale Harold
#29. I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.
Muhammad Ali
#30. People tell me they don't know whom to believe anymore; they are confused. I tell them to believe the people who preach in their mosques and say on TV that they want to kill them. They usually follow through.
Brigitte Gabriel
#31. Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
Criss Jami
#32. Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand
#33. even if you make them, they'll turn on you, rob you, betray you, and take off with someone else.
Anne Rice
#34. The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
Oscar Wilde
#35. I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in.
Tyson Fury
#36. She wakes up loving him, but not hard enough. He has dandelion hair. Stars fall and zip between them, they can't stop laughing; she falls asleep curled around him like a comma. He is gay, and often, he reminds her that she deserves better. She nods seriously and then forgets.
Meg Pokrass
#37. Few Indians or castes fought to forge a new nation called Mexico; such a scheme would have made little sense, and held little interest, for them. They fought in the hope that their lot in life might in some way improve. The
Timothy J. Henderson
#38. Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a "void". Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they'll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they're nowhere to be found.
Nicole McKay
#39. Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.
Iris Johansen
#40. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#41. One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.
Winston Groom
#42. I like eating Tahu and Tempe. So what. I don't care what people said about them. They taste good in different way~!
Eka Prasetyani
#43. I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that, too. I could talk about that for days with them. They love that, and I love that.
Steve Antin
#44. When a person understands the problem that vexes them, and comprehends the choices that created them, they begin a journey of the mind seeking personal liberation from suffering.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#45. Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.
Ann Hood
#46. Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.
Dan Simmons
#47. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
Maurice Sendak
#48. The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them. They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them.
Oscar Wilde
#49. We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.
Jaromir Jagr
#50. We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
Saul Bellow
#51. I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
Marilyn Monroe
#52. If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.
Dan Pearce
#53. Yet for all that I have had more joy than any of them, they were positive and depressed, and I am negative and happy.
Charles Bukowski
#54. Her boarders are so hard and bright that these lumpy things are being blinded just by looking at her; she's opaque, she's impermeable, she's a million densities and dimensions more real than any of them. They break against her and roll off like mist.
Tana French
#55. The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#56. The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more
if only they were willing to take a few risks.
George Foreman
#57. One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people ... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.
Chris Hayes
#58. Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.
Keith Miller
#59. The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, they seem kind, loving, free.
Veronica Roth
#60. The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.
Tracy Kidder
#61. I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#62. Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.
Bill Richardson
#63. I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope.
Shari Wiedmann
#64. Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.
Lynn Coady
#65. The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence ... Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
William Ellery Channing
#67. Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them.
Nikki Rowe
#68. They never experience the past tense. It's just another thread to them. They don't remember stuff, they relive it.
Peter Watts
#69. Don't be ashamed of your emotions, Noah. Experience them and embrace them. They're what make us alive and strong.
Katie Ashley
#70. If it was either of them, they're going to look a whole lot worse than you before I'm finished.
Nora Roberts
#71. What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].
Dada Bhagwan
#72. I don't think very many people get converted by someone telling them they are terrible. No one I'd want to rub shoulders with in Heaven, anyway.
Thomm Quackenbush
#73. Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.
Ray Charles
#74. General Dempsy despaired. The prophecies were impossible to argue since no proof could be offered to discredit them. They were sacred and above reproach.
Brian Rathbone
#75. Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
Darrell Issa
#76. I like Xtreme Sour Strips. These really colorful little strips that are so good. I like snacking on them. They're not healthy for you, though!
Becky G
#77. There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.
W. Somerset Maugham
#78. He's not going to sell any of those caps. He should just let the monkeys keep them. They are the only ones that want them anyway.
Jim Gaffigan
#79. There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
Robert Penn Warren
#80. There are only two people in your life, when you think of them, they will either give you a negative feeling, or a warm feeling, when you think of them.
Robert Black
#81. Whomever you speak to, make sure you look them in the eyes and connect with them. They will respect you more, and you will respect yourself more.
December -5-
Demi Lovato
#82. My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.
William Julius Wilson
#83. Some people can be so disoriented to God that when he begins to work around them, they actually become annoyed at the interruption!
Henry T. Blackaby
#84. When I think of whisper, I think of tenderness, gentleness, beauty. And that was God's voice. The hard part with whispers, though, is we have to be listening for them. They are just loud enough that only the people listening will hear and those who are distracted won't.
Jefferson Bethke
#85. Nothing would make me happier than to train the next winner on 'The Biggest Loser' because it means the world to me. Everybody has a fighter inside them, they just don't realize it.
Cara Castronuova
#86. Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.
Lionel Richie
#87. The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.
Robert M. Pirsig
#88. Corporations easily bully governments by threatening to deprive even democratic nations of their wealth. If we try too hard to control them, they say they'll leave and take their jobs with them.
David Suzuki
#89. Youngish artists have a way of being melancholy. It may be that this is merely a symptom of the distress they feel at the absence of definition. They have no very distinct outline either of themselves or of the abstractions that bedevil them. They are, in short, likely to be a bit baffled.
Wallace Stevens
#90. Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.
Max Barry
#91. Hydrox cookies (what happened to them? They used to be so good. Sugar. No doubt they're leaving out sugar)
Ann Beattie
#92. We tried to help them. They're too far gone. If we let them in, the gene pool would fragment and wither. We can't allow that.
Colin F. Barnes
#93. You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time, One Memory to recall, One Motion that tells them they are not alone! OM!
Deb Simpson
#94. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.
David Suzuki
#95. I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Gordon Lightfoot
#96. To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.
Zicheng Hong
#97. To love women. To pleasure them, to make them laugh. To be foolish for them. To protect them. To respect them. To listen to them. They are life-givers. To live is to love them.
Pete Hamill
#98. The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping - their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.
Louisa May Alcott
#99. Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.
Louise Penny
#100. For years after my father left us for Belladonna, I had looked for him ... the last time someone had seen them, they were living on a duck's back.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
