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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
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
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 am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.
— R.S. Thomas
This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.
— Thomas Pynchon
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
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
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
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
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 meaning is in the waiting,
— 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
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
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 love of my life came notAs 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
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
Sameness is what marketers want us to want.
— Thomas M. Disch
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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
