R.S. Thomas Quotes
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Fear is intensified by passionate love. The more I care about someone, the more I'm concerned about their welfare. The less we have to lose, in one sense, the easier it is to be "brave."
My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention
The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.
Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.