Theirs Quotes

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.

I used to get letters from girl reporters saying that their lives were nowhere near as exciting as Brenda's. I told them that if I made Brenda's life like theirs, nobody would read it.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.