R.S. Thomas Quotes

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

Women do most delight in revenge.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.

And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.

If you're going to be free! You're going to have to free YOURSELF!

The quality of the article should be its greatest achievement.

Sometimes a step forward needs a step back.

When you're great! You attract great! When you're average! You attract average!

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.