R S Thomas Quotes

R S Thomas Quote of the day

he who feeds you, controls you

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

Done because we are too many.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in love?

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas

God save me from idealists.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

No government ought to be without censors

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting.""Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card