R.S. Thomas Quotes

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.

The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise

The value of a good idea is in using it.

You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.

Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!

I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.

It may not be given to you. But if you're ready to earn it, the universe is yours.

When you feel like you've given all you've got! You gotta take one more step!

A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.

We should not say how's business, but where is business

Making a mistake is also an achievement.

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

When you do what you're supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.

The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself!

The burden of the incommunicable.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.

Sticking to it is the genius.

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

You are the architect of your own life.

Every morning I wake up and see, The most handsome man lying next to me. He's the one I cherish and love, A blessing sent from Heaven above. I will love him as a faithful wife

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

... moral evil is its own curse.

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.