English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Them Quotes (page 482)

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences. Muhammad Yunus
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories. Doug Coupland
Joseph Epstein quote: "[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the..."
[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them. Joseph Epstein
William Shakespeare quote: "Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
Men in rage strike those that wish them best. William Shakespeare
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if..."
But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right. Diana Wynne Jones
People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know. Anthony Burgess
There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess. Graham Greene
The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise. J. R. R. Tolkien
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. Suzanne Collins
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified. George Muller
Suzanne Collins quote: "Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody..."
Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone. Suzanne Collins
We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food. Cesar Chavez
Walt Whitman quote: "My words itch at your ears till you understand them"
My words itch at your ears till you understand them Walt Whitman
Enid Bagnold quote: "If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about..."
If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier. Enid Bagnold
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from... Elizabeth Gilbert

Popular Topics

Popular Author