R.S. Thomas Quotes
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.
Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.
It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?
President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.
I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.
The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.
A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.
Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.
The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.
Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.
When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.
The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.
Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.
Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.
Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.
The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?
Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.
Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.
The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.