R.S. Thomas Quotes
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.
I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.
O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride; O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell; O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside; O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.
Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.
There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.
Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or Yahweh. Atheists agree with all of them.
Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.
Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
