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I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short. — Jim Butcher

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. — Thomas Nelson Page

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. — R.S. Thomas

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved ... — Dean Koontz

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox. — R.S. Thomas

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow. — R.S. Thomas

How it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace - and — Thomas Mann

This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl. — Thomas Pynchon

Be the story teller in your life ... never let anyone dictate what you're about. — Robbie Thomas

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa. — Thomas Vilsack

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. — Thomas Carlyle

The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there. — R.S. Thomas

It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt. — R.S. Thomas

Somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time . — R.S. Thomas

How many of you knew what the Thomas A Swift Electric Rifle was? An idea in the book years ago, and now who hasn't heard of a T.A.S.E.R. — Neil Leckman

Abused patience turns to fury. — Thomas Fuller

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand. — R.S. Thomas

Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person. Admonished the Savior, 'Judge not according to the appearance. — Thomas S. Monson

To all light things
I compared her: to
a snowflake, a feather — R.S. Thomas

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset. — Thomas Warfield

Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet. — R.S. Thomas

The Lord's sovereignty over Israel is not an abstract concept. He speaks to the will of Israel, summoning its people to follow him. — Thomas R. Schreiner

The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves. — Thomas Nagel

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power — Eric Thomas

You have to imagine
a waiting that is not impatient
because it is timeless. — R.S. Thomas

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. — Thomas Fuller

her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun. — Thomas Hardy

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love . — R.S. Thomas

One of the best T-shirts I ever saw,said: i was happy once,but i'm better now. — Michael Thomas Ford

There are cries in the dark at night
As owls answer the moon — R.S. Thomas

Seated at table -
no need for the fracture
of the room's silence; noiselessly
they conversed. — R.S. Thomas

When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends. — Thomas McDonell

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. — Thomas R. Kelly

The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast. — R.S. Thomas

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart. — R.S. Thomas

The meaning is in the waiting, — R.S. Thomas

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty — R.S. Thomas

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself? — R.S. Thomas

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind. — R.S. Thomas

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow. — R.S. Thomas

To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky — R.S. Thomas

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason ? — R.S. Thomas

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens — R.S. Thomas

I am alone on the surface of a turning planet. — R.S. Thomas

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being ... ultimate reality is what we call God. — R.S. Thomas

There is always
laughter out of the speeding
vehicles for the man
who is still, half-way though he be
in a better direction. — R.S. Thomas

To be content with death may be better than to desire it. — Thomas Browne

I think of a designer as a processor of information - like a scriptwriter or a novelist. — Freeman Thomas

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one — Thomas Hardy

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. — Thomas A. Edison

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. — Thomas Sowell

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time. — Thomas Jefferson

I went into the seminary when I was 16. — Clarence Thomas

All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn't open our eyes. What — Thomas Bernhard

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master. — Thomas More

The love of my life came not
As love unto others is cast;
For mine was a secret wound--
But the wound grew a pearl, at last. — Edith Matilda Thomas

The less I have, the less I can lose. — Dean Koontz

It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar. — Thomas Perez

If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am. — Thomas Friedman

The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. - LINUS PAULING — Thomas Kelley

Sameness is what marketers want us to want. — Thomas M. Disch

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. — Thomas Carlyle

Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives. — Thomas S. Monson

To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!! — Lorine S. Thomas

Love is faith, and faith, like a gathered flower, will live on a long time after nutriment has ceased — Thomas Hardy

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself. — Thomas A Kempis

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together. — Thomas Bernhard

One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain. — Thomas Campbell

Stop being a victim and waiting for somebody else to open up an opportunity for you! — Eric Thomas

Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will. — Thomas Watson

I am offended only by certain sorts of wallpaper — Thomas Pynchon

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas

What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force. — Thomas Perez

If something wants to be a story, it will be. — Scarlett Thomas

They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache — Louise Penny

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. — Thomas Huxley

He who would weigh well and rightly his own doings would not be the man to judge severely of another. — Thomas A Kempis

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. — Thomas Carlyle

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. — Thomas C. Oden

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can ... — Thomas Carlyle

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid

Paradoxically, it is the uncommon event that may best demonstrate the common predicament of our race. — Thomas Ligotti