R.S. Thomas Quotes

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

Hell is full of good intentions.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

All cats are grey in the dark.

The cowslip is a country wench.

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.