Top 100 What They Are Quotes
#1. Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men - at least he always did when he was a kid - because they pretend that's what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.
Russell Banks
#2. The warmongers in the United States Congress are not aware of, or they're blind to the fact that what they are doing will bring about the type of war that will end America completely as a power in the world.
Louis Farrakhan
#3. I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.
Donald Norman
#4. People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.
Garrison Keillor
#5. True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be.
Wayne Dyer
#6. I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#7. Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.
Natalie Goldberg
#8. Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.
Robert Kiyosaki
#9. People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.
Howard Zinn
#10. I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.
Michael Socha
#11. We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.
Stephanie Mills
#12. Behind every person there lies a story which makes them what they are. Many a time, the story isn't known to anybody.
Toffee
#13. Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about.
Emile Zola
#14. What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
Barbara Lee
#15. If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.
Wilbert Rideau
#16. Love is yet another name for Respect. If you cannot respect a person for what they are; you can never ever truly, madly, or deeply love that person.
Nikita Dudani
#17. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R.D. Laing
#18. The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else ... They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.
John Eliot
#19. The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.
Ali Khamenei
#20. Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
Henry Cloud
#21. It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.
Robert Jordan
#22. A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Ara Parseghian
#23. If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.
Shannon L. Alder
#24. People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.
William D. Cohan
#25. If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.
Peter Singer
#26. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
#27. People are like detectives in their relations, they eventually find what they are searching for.
Umut Kisa
#28. When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.
Josh Fox
#29. When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#30. In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
Sidney Sheldon
#31. I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
Lady Starlight
#32. Bed the woman until neither of you can walk, and get her out of your system. Remember, no matter what they are or where they come from, all women have one simple birth defect. BPD.
BPD?
Bitch Personality Disorder.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.
George Packer
#34. If you want moksha (ultimate liberation), then you simply need to understand what the Vitraag Lords (The Enlightened Ones) say. Just understand what the Vitraag Lords are saying, that is what they are saying, nothing else they want to say.
Dada Bhagwan
#35. If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and what they are actually (in truth, not in their limited idea) capable of doing, becoming, and achieving in the world.
Emily Gowor
#36. Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.
Margery Wilson
#37. George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." Well,
Earl Nightingale
#38. All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of Allah. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others are unaware. However it may be, Allah's manifestation is confirmed.
Rumi
#39. Never to reject someone just because they are not of your type or the way you want, accept them for what they are because if once they are changed they are one to reject you..
Sanjana Singh
#40. Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
George Gilder
#41. And men of science,' cries dixon, 'may be but the simple tools of others, with no more idea of what they are about, than a hammer knows of a house.
Thomas Pynchon
#42. Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.
Dirk Kurbjuweit
#43. People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
Alexander Pushkin
#44. It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.
David Duchovny
#45. We see how mankind, without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness itself. In
John Calvin
#46. When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.
Jacques Audiard
#47. What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
Karl Lagerfeld
#48. The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. Until annihilation comes. And all grand ideas are seen for what they are.
Cormac McCarthy
#49. Beliefs are choices. No one has authority over your personal beliefs. Your beliefs are in jeopardy only when you don't know what they are.
Jay Allison
#50. Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear ... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
J.C. Ryle
#51. Most people never live up to the potential they have been given. The results they produce and the life they experience are only a tiny fraction of what they are truly capable of. Why? What stops us? Only one thing: fear.
Darren Hardy
#52. I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.
Miranda Kerr
#53. Just because those around you do not constantly tell you what they are going through in their personal life, it does not mean they are living in a fairytale.
Auliq Ice
#54. Folks is what they are and they ain't how they're not.
K.I. Hope
#55. Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
Jimmy Fallon
#56. You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
Kate DiCamillo
#57. Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.
Paul McGann
#58. Too many people get away with truly awful 'reasoning', not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.
Ellie Rose McKee
#59. I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.
Tim Hunt
#60. One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be.
Saahil Prem
#61. Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Carine Roitfeld
#62. I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.
Michael Heseltine
#63. People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
Amanda Hocking
#64. None of us wants to see the truth of what is right in front of us, do they? But for our protection, we must not sugar-coat the truth. We must have the courage to see people for what they are.
Sandra Byrd
#65. When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.
Julia Ward Howe
#66. [245] "In large and populous cities," says the author of the Fable of the Bees, i, p. 133, "they wear clothes above their rank, and, consequently, have the pleasure of being esteemed by a vast majority, not as what they are, but what they appear to be.
Montesquieu
#67. Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.
Michael Phelps
#68. The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.
Lauren Greenfield
#69. But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around
they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.
Ransom Riggs
#70. Let's drop the whole 'atheist evangelism' thing and call out bullshit questions like 'what does atheism have to offer?' for just what they are: Bullshit. I mean, what does knowing that the Earth goes around the Sun have to offer? Who cares? It just is.
Rebecca Watson
#71. We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.
Jennifer Connelly
#72. Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome ... Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard.
Robert Gallucci
#73. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett
#74. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes Jr.
#75. It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.
S.J. Watson
#76. Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account
Sunday Adelaja
#77. The best-adjusted people are the
'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#78. We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton
#79. We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
#80. I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities - wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty - but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness.
Pat Derby
#81. True heroes are never heroes for the recognition. They do what they are supposed to do, play the hand they've been dealt. And true heroes don't seek out heroism. It's thrust upon them.
Darynda Jones
#82. It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.
Richard Whately
#83. There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
Paul Simon
#84. Things are what they are, even when you don't know what they are.
Marty Rubin
#85. Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not ... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Newman
#87. You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.
Rita Ora
#88. A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.
Tim Schafer
#89. One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.
Thomas Sowell
#90. Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
James Cash Penney
#91. One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
#92. You hear diffrent things in all them way back storys but it dont make no diffrents, Mostly they aint strait storys any how. What they are is diffrent ways of telling what happent.
Russell Hoban
#93. No matter what they are in life, in memory they always seem to rearrange themselves in the opposite manner. All pleasures are seen as foreshortened and hasty and fleeting, and all pain lingering.
Margaret George
#94. I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
Elizabeth I
#95. In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots in what they are.
Robertson Davies
#97. The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope
#98. With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table.
Dennis Miller
#99. ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. Is it possible she could be right? That Peeta could return to me? "I have to
Suzanne Collins
#100. People will follow what they see, and not what they are only told to do
Sunday Adelaja
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