R.S. Thomas Quotes

Is the werewolf community so afraid of one little half human?

If you wanted pomp and circumstance, you dealt with the vampires. If you wanted ceremony, the witches it was. But for plain old straight forward business, you dealt with the werewolves.

She was a woman without a family. A woman without a pack. A woman alone.

James’ fingers brushed her cheek. “You can run, or you can see this through to the end. Whatever that end might be.

He leaned his forehead against hers. “Tell me you want this.

A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each individual.

As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much

There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.

Magic. For the first time, she heard the word and felt a twist in her stomach, a little thrill. Having that kind of power, that kind of influence... it was a wicked thing.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history.

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.

Jesus loved crème brûlée, but even with crème brûlée enough isn't just enough, it can get to be too much.

Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.

All that God is, will supply your need.

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.

God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters.Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.

Some of your most powerful intentions are born in your moments of greatest contrast.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution, " the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.

Our mind can move directly and aggressively on impulse, while our spirit moves gently and calmly on our intuition.

Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.

Following your intuition will always lead you to the best experience for your growth right now.

Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Aim at the ground, you'll never miss.

Wherever you go, there you are.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.

...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.

You only fail when you stop trying.

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.

Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.