R.S. Thomas Quotes

Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.