Top 100 They Have Quotes
#1. Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.
Laura Ziskin
#2. The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
Jacob Bronowski
#3. They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
Isaac Asimov
#4. It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
C.L.R. James
#5. There was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited. "I see they have begun to arrive already," he said when he caught sight of
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
Benjamin Disraeli
#7. Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus
#8. Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
Cecelia Ahern
#9. Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
Corin Nemec
#10. Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.
Dave Eggers
#11. I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell
#12. Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilization which they have represented.
Josiah Royce
#13. Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search ... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.
David Filo
#14. Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
Umar
#15. There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#16. Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
#17. The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
Natasha Leggero
#18. For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.
Henry David Thoreau
#19. So biggest pussies in METAL, I'd say a lot of these emo bands come off as pussies.They have those beards and tight jeans and to me they all look so fake.
Charlie Benante
#20. When jealousy stings your enemies' minds,
they have many sorrows.
When envy stings your enemies' hearts,
they have numerous sorrows.
When hatred stings your enemies' souls,
they have countless sorrows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.
Cristina Henriquez
#22. I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.
Al Berto
#23. [Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
Annie Dillard
#24. I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.
Mark Pincus
#25. I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.
Jesse Ventura
#26. Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.
Marjane Satrapi
#27. It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them ... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
Seamus Heaney
#28. I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what
Elena Ferrante
#29. Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.
John Piper
#30. If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.
Mickey Kaus
#31. If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.
Will Advise
#32. Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.
Charles Kellogg
#33. People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.
Stephen Covey
#34. Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
Cyril Connolly
#35. Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they have both obstructed the Republicans' proposed remedies.
David Limbaugh
#36. The tsunami that cleared the shoreline like a giant bulldozer has presented developers with an undreamed-of opportunity, and they have moved quickly to seize it. - Seth Mydans, International Herald Tribune, March 10,
Naomi Klein
#37. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm Forbes
#38. Fraternities aren't cool at all, not in the real, rock-and-roll sense, the one I now knew. They have a reputation of housing douchebags that pay for friends and try to seem better than everyone else, and actually smart, cool people shouldn't want to be a part of anything like that.
A.D. Aliwat
#39. Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.
Angela Merici
#40. Those who are slaves to passions, run down with the stream (of desires), as a spider runs down the web which he has made himself; when they have cut this, at last, wise people leave the world free from cares, leaving all affection behind.
Anonymous
#41. They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
Jeremy Rifkin
#42. Some people can't fit the mould that's made for them ... They get squashed in. And it's hard for them to leave, but it's harder for them to stay. They have to find other ways to be.
C.J. Flood
#43. Beauty of body doesn't matter ,Many snakes are beautiful but you cant keep them in home because their nature to sting and kill by their poison which all they have inside
So matter is what is Inside Not Out side Beauty
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#44. There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.
Gus Van Sant
#45. Too much money buys everything but health, so they have no dreams left to purchase, and no aspirations, so in the end they are only bored.
V.C. Andrews
#46. I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.
Channing Tatum
#47. Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.
Henry Blackaby
#48. One of my favorite apps is VSCO, which is for editing photos. I think they have great filters. And then I read the New York Times.
Kiernan Shipka
#49. People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.
Terry H. Anderson
#50. Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
Linus Torvalds
#51. They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#52. Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.
Joshua Bell
#53. So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.
Warren Jeffs
#54. Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
#55. He accepted me for who I was, scabs and all. But he refused to accept that that was all I was. And when someone believes in you, goes out on a limb for you when they have no obligation to do shit - it has an impact. It made me want to look in the mirror and see the man he knew I could be. And
Emma Chase
#56. The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.
Sigmund Freud
#57. It takes a long time to make the perfect playlist. I don't believe in that little Genius button they have on iTunes. That's cheating.
J.J. Howard
#58. I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.
Bum Phillips
#59. It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
Alan Alda
#60. At first, yes. But a long intimacy frees you of that illusion, and it also acquaints you with their scantiness of character. The effect they have produced on you is only their bluff. There is not such a thing as too much beauty.
Rex Stout
#61. Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
John Bradshaw
#62. The fact therefore must be that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.
Thomas Paine
#63. When you kill do you also conjoin somehow? In some horrible communion you will never shake? Is that why soldiers come home and scream at night and kill themselves? Because they have become their targets?
Peter Heller
#64. Our minds are like certain vehicles,
when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.
Elihu Burritt
#65. But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone - they have a potential to gain so much more.
James Victore
#66. Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.
Adam S. McHugh
#67. The United States, you know, people - one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924 was so that they could be drafted. And they have been extensively drafted.
Winona LaDuke
#68. It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.
Winston Churchill
#69. There's some things that you're passionate about as a director. You just know it has to be a certain way. The challenge is resolving those so everyone is happy and no one feels that they have not been heard.
Ricky Schroder
#70. For if my poems have always been about survival
and I believe they have been
then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.
Jane Cooper
#71. The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.
Tracy Morgan
#72. Rejections are thin 'cause they really have nothing to say other than, "Sorry, dude, you're screwed." acceptances are thick 'cause they have lots of stuff to say like, "Welcome, dude, you're not screwed, we want you.
Alan Sitomer
#73. Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.
Ginger Rogers
#74. God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#75. You know what I've seen? Is that people who have gone through unfair, horrific experiences, is that they have this will, and when they get support, a chance, they can not only survive, they can thrive.
Olivia
#76. Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited.
Marcel Proust
#77. Here they have no time for the fine graces
of poetry, unless it freely grows
in deep compulsion, like water in the well,
woven into the texture of the soil
in a strong pattern.
Iain Crichton Smith
#78. In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
Dennis Quaid
#79. Prices are determined by supply and demand, and demand is determined by how intensely people want a commodity and what they have to offer in exchange for it.
Henry Hazlitt
#80. Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
Laozi
#81. I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
Omar Sharif
#82. Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just as they have to be taught it is all right to kill and eat them.
J.M. Coetzee
#83. There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going. And it's very important that writers challenge that occasionally and not just trust their parent companies to tell them.
Danny Boyle
#85. A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and ... play.
Emmy Rossum
#86. Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.
Matthew Arnold
#87. I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.
Lawren Harris
#88. This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.
Sean Gabler
#89. Don't underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life's purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong.
Saad Salman
#90. Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before
Herodotus
#91. Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They're not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes.
Cesar Millan
#92. The other danger is that apologists put so much effort into what they do that they may end up not so much defending the faith because they believe it is true as believing the faith is true because they have worked so hard and long to defend it.
Frederick Buechner
#93. Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.
Mike Newell
#94. Why are the people all so unhappy?" he asked Mister Wolf. "They have a stern and demanding God," Wolf replied. "Which God is that?" Garion asked. "Money," Wolf said.
David Eddings
#95. If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!
William Shakespeare
#96. If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
Oswald Chambers
#97. One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
Steve Case
#98. from Hunter's Moon: Memories are deceptive and imperfect; selective and seductive. They have a way of sneaking up on you. A scent, a color, an idle phrase can trigger them and you're powerless to escape.
Ken Gilland
#99. The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.
Larry Osborne
#100. I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated. I
Oscar Wilde
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