R.S. Thomas Quotes

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are correct, and that if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a guide.

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

The end of man is action.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.

They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.