R.S. Thomas Quotes

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

Told ya you were special.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

Kill the king but spare the man.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

Hope is a very thin diet.

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.