R.S. Thomas Quotes
The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.
It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.
The world around you is not equipped to provide the help you need to make it through this often treacherous journey.
Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.
I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage to make certain that everyone is included and feels loved and valued.
We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us.
With a strong testimony of the Savior and His restored gospel, you have limitless opportunities to shine.
The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.
Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.
Your patriarchal blessing is your passport to peace in this life. It is a Liahona of light to guide you unerringly to your heavenly home.
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.
Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.
You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.
