Them Quotes
61071 quotes by 18397 authors
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I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful…
— Dick Cheney
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We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them…
— Dick Cheney
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
— Lord Chesterfield
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
— Lord Chesterfield
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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases…
— Lord Chesterfield
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
— Julia Child
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When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those…
— Julia Child
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