Him Quotes

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

~ James Salter

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

~ Steve Buscemi

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

~ Ritchie Blackmore

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.

~ Donald Trump

I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama.

~ Donald Trump

I respect Jay-Z. I like him.

~ Paul Anka

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

~ Aeschylus

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

~ Wesley Clark

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

~ Peter De Vries

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

~ Samuel Butler

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

~ Winston Churchill

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

~ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

~ Arthur C. Danto

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

~ Karl A. Menninger

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

~ Brendan Behan

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

~ Tammy Wynette

Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.

~ Yuna

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

~ Charlie Trotter

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

~ Jacques Lacan

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

~ Blaise Pascal

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

~ Phil Jackson

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

~ Amy Klobuchar

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

~ Greg Norman

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

~ Ty Cobb

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

~ Henry Miller

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

~ Lionel Blue

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

~ Kin Hubbard

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

~ Edward Jenner

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

~ Isaac Asimov

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

~ Elbert Hubbard

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

~ Anne Sullivan

Birth was the death of him.

~ Samuel Beckett

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

~ Tupac Shakur

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

~ Jack Dempsey

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

~ John O. Brennan

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

~ Henri Nouwen