Ponnamma Thomas Quotes

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five. ~ Debi Thomas

I threw the notebook at his head; he didn't even have the courtesy of flinching at the tiny pissed-off human. ~ Ashlan Thomas

I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home. ~ Thomas Brodie-Sangster

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. ~ Thomas Jefferson

She should laugh at such ambitions on his part: nothing about him held any romance for her, not his crown, not his black heart, not his beautiful liar's face. ~ Sherry Thomas

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. ~ Thomas Browne

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth ~ Thomas Hood

Ever since, I don't have to decide which Starr I have to be with him. He likes both. Well, the parts I've shown him. Some things I can't reveal, like Natasha. Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked - you can't look at them the same anymore. I ~ Angie Thomas

There can be only one Captain to a ship. ~ Thomas John Barnardo

Dare to Stand Alone ~ Thomas S. Monson

Where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant. ~ Thomas Love Peacock

How old was More when Richard succeeded?
He was five.
When that dramatic council scene had taken place at the Tower, Thomas More had been five years old. He had been only eight when Richard died at Bosworth.
Everything in that history had been hearsay. ~ Josephine Tey

It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people ... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. ~ Thomas Becket

The doctrine of transmigration... was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; ... none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity. ~ Thomas Huxley

Our stories don't fit on a newspaper page. I'm tired of newspaper pages, Elisabeth. Life is a spiral, not a line. ~ Thomas Pletzinger

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small. ~ Thomas Hardy

Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning Oak's feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances. ~ Thomas Hardy

He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them. ~ Bulfinch, Thomas

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled. ~ Thomas Brooks

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. ~ Thomas Kuhn

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties. ~ Thomas Frank

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. ~ Thomas Huxley

We shall now seek that which we shall not find ~ Thomas Malory

One thing that tells me a company is in trouble is when they tell me how good they were in the past. Same with countries. You don't want to forget your identity. I am glad that you were great in the fourteenth century, but that was then and this is now. When memories exceed dreams, the end is near. The hallmark of a truly successful organization is the willingness to abandon what made it successful and start fresh."
In societies that have more memories than dreams, too many people are spending too many days looking backward. They see dignity, affirmation, and self-worth not by mining the present but by chewing on the past. And even that is usually not a real past but an imagined and adorned past. Indeed, such societies focus all their imagination on making that imagined past even more beautiful than it ever was, and then they cling to it…, rather than imagining a better future and acting on that. ~ Thomas L. Friedman

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one! ~ Thomas Hardy

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. ~ Lewis Thomas

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. ~ Thomas Harris

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. ~ Dylan Thomas

Those of us who attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others. We will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of our own obsessions, our aggressivity, our ego-centered ambitions, our delusions about ends and means. ~ Thomas Merton

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded. ~ Dean Koontz

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. ~ Thomas Sowell

But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket , the double integral has a different meaning. To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled ... 'Meters per second ' will integrate to 'meters.' The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. It never did fall. ~ Thomas Pynchon

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ~ Thomas Szasz

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas