Will Thomas Quotes

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

No Such Thing as Bad Results

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

If the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year?

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

To begin, at the beginning.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.