R.S. Thomas Quotes

It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

Testimony bearing is the key to missionary work

This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.

It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer.

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

History is the memory of a nation

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

If a word means everything, then in means nothing.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

Time tries the troth in everything.

I still have things to learn, especially on defense.

I will stay at Arsenal forever. There will be no transfer for me. I love London. I've got a house there, I'm happy there and I don't see any reason to ever leave the club.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

Each person's prayers can help everyone.

I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.

A generous action is its own reward.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace