R.S. Thomas Quotes

Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

Evil cannot be accommodated. It must be defeated.

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.

Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

The wonderment of humanity leads to its greatest discoveries.

I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

Just trying to get to know what director Bill Condon wanted. He's a great director and knows exactly what he wants. He knew every lyric to every song; knew where a handicap was.

We feel pretty comfortable making music but beyond that there have been other things to take into account, including promotion, marketing, airplay.

A lot of the hot music today comes from what's being done in R&B and hip-hop.

There was a time when certain producers could produce just about anything, and the label execs would say, "That's a such-and-such record. Let's put that out as the first single."

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.

There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.

This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes?

In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void.

Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought

Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.