Him Quotes

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.