Theirs Quotes
680 Theirs quotes by 542 unique authors
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We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther…
— Bernard of Chartres
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Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.
— Anne Bancroft
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I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else…
— Mario
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The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May…
— H. Burke Peterson
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I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every…
— Ashley Graham
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I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
— Thomas Browne
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Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
— Charles James
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[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this…
— Barack Obama
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The…
— Edith Sitwell
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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,…
— Dylan Moran
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The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love…
— Ellen G. White
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I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have…
— Jeanine Basinger
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In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.
— Romain Rolland
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Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But…
— Stephen Leacock
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
— Edith Sitwell
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When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get…
— Edna Ferber
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Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry…
— Ted Nelson
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If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it…
— Azim Premji
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