R.S. Thomas Quotes
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.
Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.
I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.
Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
I have been told to reason by the heart, But heart, like head, leads helplessly; I have been told to reason by the pulse, And, when it quickens, alter the actions' pace
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.
