Taelen Thomas Quotes

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone. ~ Thomas Lansing Masson

I hardly think my berating you wildly when I arrived at the hotel was subtle behavior." "No?" Thomas grinned. "You berated me in Portuguese. For all I knew you were telling me I was the sexiest thing you'd seen in your life." "In your dreams," Inez chuckled. ~ Lynsay Sands

Hey, like Godzilla always sez to Mothra - why don't we go eat some place? ~ Thomas Pynchon

I knew it was coming. That question. It was like he had a freaking daily quota to hit. ~ Ashlan Thomas

The real deep text of music and the whole reason that it has continued with the profundity and urgency that it has for over a thousand years, has to do with what the notes say, what the notes witness, different experiences of hope or doubt that people are able to distill and encode and pass on in this way. ~ Michael Tilson Thomas

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization. ~ Thomas Watson Jr.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman. ~ Thomas Jefferson

As Zapffe concluded, we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see, ~ Thomas Ligotti

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. ~ Thomas De Quincey

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart. ~ Thomas Watson Jr.

If in the men who are supposed to be good they only see a "virtue" which is effectively less vital and less interesting than their own vices they will conclude that virtue has no meaning and will cling to what they have although they hate it. ~ Thomas Merton

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore. ~ Thomas Moore

Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world. ~ Thomas Cochrane

I'm glad you're seeing someone," she said. "You and Thomas had a pretty complex relationship. You've spent an enormous amount of emotional energy on Thomas. Your whole life. Now, you're going to have to take all of that energy and . . . reinvest it, I guess. It's bound to be a complicated process. ~ Wally Lamb

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old. ~ Eddie Kaye Thomas

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. ~ Thomas Carlyle

The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected. ~ Thomas Nagel

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. ~ Thomas Watson Jr.

Money doesn't motivate, but stats do. ~ Frank Thomas

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil! ~ Thomas Carlyle

Unlike my brother, I had no respect for authority. Very early on, Uncle Georg had told me the truth about teachers: that they were moral cowards who took out on their pupils all the frustrations they could not take out on their wives. When I was very young Uncle Georg impressed upon me that among the educated classes teachers were the basest and most dangerous people, on a par with judges, who were the lowest form of human life. Teachers and judges, he said, are the meanest slaves of the state--remember that. He was right, as I have discovered not just hundreds but thousands of times. No teacher and no judge can be trusted as far as you can throw him. Without scruple or compunction they daily destroy many of the existences that are thrown upon their mercy, being motivated by base caprice and a desire to avenge themselves for their miserable, twisted lives--and they are actually paid for doing so. The supposed objectivity of teachers and judges is a piece of shabby mendacity, Uncle Georg said--and he was right. Talking to a teacher we soon discover that he is a destructive individual with whom no one and nothing is safe, and the same is true when we talk to a judge. ~ Thomas Bernhard

I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. ~ Fran Lebowitz

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ~ Thomas Brooks

Part of me must have really wanted to believe
like a child hearing, in perfect safety, a tale of horror
that the unconscious would be like any other room, once the light was let in. That the dark shapes would resolve only into toy horses and Biedermeyer furniture. That therapy could tame it after all, bring it into society with no fear of its someday reverting. I wanted to believe, despite everything my life had been. Can you imagine? ~ Thomas Pynchon

Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can. ~ Thomas Hardy

In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover. ~ Thomas Jefferson

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ... I do not deserve my lot! ... O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all! ~ Thomas Hardy

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. ~ Thomas Lovejoy

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking. ~ Thomas Merton

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth. ~ Thomas Cooper

The neighborhood doesn't feel nearly as safe. Not that the Garden was ever a utopia, hell no, but before I only worried about GDs and Crowns. Now I gotta worry about the cops too? Yeah, people get killed around here, and nah, it's not always by the police, but Jay says this was like having a stranger come in your house, steal one of your kids, and blame you for it because your family was dysfunctional, while the whole world judges you for being upset. ~ Angie Thomas

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good. ~ Thomas Merton

The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal. ~ Helen Thomas

Get the hell out of Palestine. ~ Helen Thomas

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son. ~ Thomas S. Monson

and if you're uncertain you'll crease my will in vain and leave behind a crumpled ball ~ Erin A. Thomas

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction. ~ Thomas Szasz

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side. ~ Thomas Reed

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none. ~ Thomas Hardy

We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways. ~ Evan Thomas