#theirs

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#apt #change #children #craving #full

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs. ↗

— Jeanine Basinger

#cloth #cut #everyone #flexible #how

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs. ↗

— William Allen White

#i #only #others #should #since

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#cannot #capacity #confined #essential #gift

Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#been #business #businesses #closing #comparing

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#abandoning #anyone #convictions #nor #our

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. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#complained #deserve #entertaining #heroism #i

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#got #hold #honor #inheritance #know

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat. ↗

— Ludacris

#eat #everybody #get #hip-hop #lot