Will Thomas Quotes

The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.

Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

I've never actually played a Zelda game. I've played other N64 games, like Goldeneye, Mario Kart, they were my favourites.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

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.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.

Friendship demands attention.

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my part, I disbelieve them all.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

A woman needs to be told she is beautiful. She needs to be told she is valued. She needs to be told she is worthwhile.

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

If you are persistent, you will succeed

Love is the very essence of the gospel.

I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant.

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmas time fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

May your homes be filled with peace, harmony, courtesy, and love. May they be filled with the Spirit of the Lord.

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.