R.S. Thomas Quotes
Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.
Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.
You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.
Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.
Through the metal bars of the jungle gym, she watches two gray squirrels chase each other around a tree. Around and around and around. So gratuitous.
People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.
My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.
If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.
Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test.
He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.
Freedom without limits is when you choose to be a Bondman for "JESUS".... Sounds funny but it is the fact as well as the Truth
God breaks, molds, shapes & fills U not 1ly for U to be blessed but to make U a blessing 2 al even UR foes, remember HE LOVED YOU WHEN YOU WERE HIS ENEMY.
Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.
Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.
Everyone may be called "comrade, " but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyone’s interest
They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.
A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow
Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called."On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed, " came the response.
We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters.
I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves.
When you really thought about it crying was a rather bizarre thing for any creature to be capable of. What purpose did it serve other than revealing too much?
Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.
We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think.
Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
If I make you read, then I'll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I'll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I'll keep writing.
Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.
I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.
You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.
To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...
we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.
We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.
