Vannier Thomas Quotes

#1. There are three things that make me want to drink: difficult times, when I want alcohol to either alleviate the pain or allow me to feel it; clear days that make me want to scribble all over the irritating blue sky; and well, waking up in the morning. #Quote by Abigail Thomas

#2. No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. #Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#3. Consider any year, that has been so unfruitful that many thousands have died of hunger; and yet if, at the end of that year, a survey was made of the granaries of all the rich men that have hoarded up the corn, it would be found that there was enough among them to have prevented all that consumption #Quote by Thomas More

#4. We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth became muted. #Quote by Thomas Piketty

#5. That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology, as commonly understood, had received its deathblow at Mr. Darwin's hands. For the teleological argument runs thus: an organ or organism (A) is precisely fitted to perform a function or purpose (B); therefore it was specially constructed to perform that function. #Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

#6. You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison. #Quote by Craig L. Thomas

#7. I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water. #Quote by Thomas Shadwell

#8. The living have to live with it. You don't. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the loss or gain of it. Theirs is the pain and the pleasure of memory. #Quote by Thomas Lynch

#9. Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them. If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it! O #Quote by Thomas Merton

#10. He held it at arm's length, through the bars, his forefinger along the spine. She reached across the barrier and took it. For an instant the tip of her forefinger touched Dr. Lecter's. The touch crackled in his eyes. "Thank you, Clarice." "Thank you, Dr. Lecter." And that is how he remained in Starling's mind. Caught in the instant when he did not mock. Standing in his white cell, arched like a dancer, his hands clasped in front of him and his head slightly to the side. #Quote by Thomas Harris

#11. I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#12. For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it. #Quote by Thomas Merton

#13. today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations. #Quote by Thomas L. Friedman

#14. No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, ... No road, no street, no t' other side the way, ... No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds. #Quote by Thomas Hood

#15. By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'. #Quote by Thomas Asbridge

#16. Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees. #Quote by Thomas Jackson

#17. Whenever Momma breaks a name down like that, you better hope it's not yours. #Quote by Angie Thomas

#18. Politics is mostly pill-taking. #Quote by Thomas Reed

#19. There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul! #Quote by Thomas Carlyle

#20. When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. #Quote by Thomas Clarkson

#21. Truth can stand by itself ... If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#22. Let me feel how thy pulses beat. #Quote by Thomas Middleton

#23. As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things, and those who give precedence to suffering will be left behind. They fetter us with their sniveling. We have someplace to go and must believe we can get there, wherever that may be. And to conceive that there is a 'brotherhood of suffering between everything alive' would disable us from getting anywhere. We are preoccupied with the good life, and step by step are working toward a better life. What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next - as if we were playing a board game we think will never end, despite the fact that it will, like it or not. And if you are too conscious of not liking it, then you may conceive of yourself as a biological paradox that cannot live with its consciousness and cannot live without it. And in so living and not living, you take your place with the undead and the human puppet. #Quote by Thomas Ligotti

#24. The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight. #Quote by Thomas Sowell

#25. We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#26. Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#27. By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. #Quote by Thomas Merton

#28. A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained. #Quote by Thomas Hardy

#29. Sunay shook her head, her temples starting to hurt as her mind tied itself in knots trying to untie the tangled mess presented to her. It was making too little sense to not make sense... which didn't make any sense. #Quote by Thomas Knapp

#30. Ignorance of naturall causes disposeth a man to Credulity, so as to believe many times impossibilities: for such know nothing to the contrary, but that they may be true; being unable to detect the Impossibility. And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them. #Quote by Thomas Hobbes

#31. There is a ripeness of time for death,
regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for
another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#32. Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular. #Quote by Thomas Merton

#33. Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#34. Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, [is] religion; not allowed, superstition. #Quote by Thomas Hobbes

#35. I mean, I like nice girls, and I like people who are generous. #Quote by Thomas McDonell

#36. A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist. #Quote by Thomas L. Friedman

#37. Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#38. but the priest's vestments are parti-coloured, and both the work and colours are wonderful. #Quote by Thomas More

#39. It's always been clear to me, as it was to Michel Thomas himself, that learning to speak a new language is like learning to swim or dance - you don't start with books or notes on swimming or dance. You get into the water, or on the dance floor, with a good coach, and get on with it. #Quote by Akshay Bakaya

#40. Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think. #Quote by Thomas Frank

#41. Skrillex has been successful because he has a recognizable sound: You hear a dubstep song: even if it's not him, you think it's him. #Quote by Thomas Bangalter

#42. A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#43. I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives. #Quote by Eric Thomas

#44. At least 200 dates have been suggested, varying from 3483 to 6934 years B.C., all based on the supposition that the Bible enables us to settle the point. But it does nothing of the sort. The literal interpretation has now been entirely abandoned; and the world is admitted to be of immense antiquity. On such questions we have no Biblical evidence, and the Catholic is quite free to follow the teaching of science. #Quote by Thomas Murasso

#45. (which did not exist before the creation of the income tax in 1913) #Quote by Thomas Piketty