R.S. Thomas Quotes

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.

[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.

You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.

My mouth was always my weapon. I've become quieter now. It's possible to put things very clearly, concisely and sharply, even when you do it quietly.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

Let me ask you, when it comes to Obamacare, do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country?

Both the State Department and the FBI deny any 'quid pro quo' between Hillary Clinton's State Department and the FBI.

Enjoy now, another now is coming.

If you do not advertise, you fossilize.

Why would anyone think the FBI had done something crooked or criminal?

It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation, this is crazy.

Not one single scandal that Hillary Clinton has been accused of has ever, ever been proved.

Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.

Christ's peace can permeate any heart - hearts that are troubled, burdened with grief, confused, and pleading for help.

Be not weary in well-doing. … Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.

Without a goal there can be no real success.

Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.

When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ.

The Lord shapes the back to bear the burden placed upon it.

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.

There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.

We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.

Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter

Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.

We find real joy when we keep the Savior the focus of the season.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

Your future depends on your Faith.

No force in this world can stop the work of God.

May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.

Times change; years speed by; but Christmas continues sacred.