Theirs Quotes

680 Theirs quotes by 542 unique authors

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
Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking. — Anne Bancroft
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
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
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
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
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James
[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
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
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
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
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
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
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs. — Romain Rolland
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
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell
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
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
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
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
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
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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