Quotes About Them

There's an old Quidneck saying about fools: The only thing worse than one of them is two of them.

Ethnicity and morality can of course combine, giving the sense that "we" are "good" and "they" are "bad.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

And I realize there's another group of words that still mean something. Little words that trip through sentences unregarded: us, them, we, they, here, there. These are the words of power, and long after we're gone, they'll lie about in the language, like the unexploded grenades in these fields, and anyone of them'll take your hand off.

The thing I hate most about the gods is the fact that they are seldom at hand when you need them most.

It's only really appropriate in the event of a life-threatening emergency, "I love you." It means a different thing to us than it means to them. God knows what it means to them. God knows what it means to us.

I think what you've seen them do recently in the markets is what most of us learn doesn't ultimately work. But I think everyone has to figure that on their own.

I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

creeping up the hill toward them right now . . . Which was just what he started to do. Nobody

What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?

Why would you want the damned fetched back from Hell? There's a reason God put them where they are.

Wherever he goes he is cheered by the people.' 'The people?' Norfolk says. 'They'd cheer a Barbary ape. Who cares what they cheer? Hang 'em all.' 'But then who will you tax?' he says.

Why would you want the damned fetched back from Hell? There's a reason God put them where they are.

I am vulnerable. No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal. I hate that most of all. Even if by some miracle, I could be better than them, I will never be one of them.

Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van Morrison was a big influence on me, too, as were The Stones; The Yardbirds, John Mayall, and the other British blues pioneers.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour or where they're born. Ways of identifying blackness are no longer black or white. It's not a case of us or them, you can now be us and them; like them but different.

Loyce gazed up, rigid with horror. The splotch of darkness, hanging over the City Hall. Darkness so thick it seemed almost solid. In the vortex something moved. Flickering shapes. Things, descending from the sky, pausing momentarily above the City Hall, fluttering over it in a dense swarm and then dropping silently onto the roof. Shapes. Fluttering shapes from the sky. From the crack of darkness that hung above him. He was seeing—them.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!