Him Quotes

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

I don’t think my life would be significantly poorer if I don’t impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it’s just that he has never… he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we’ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.

It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him… the better off we all are.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.

The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That’s your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

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.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

On the subject of Osama bin Laden… we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.