Thomas Blachman Quotes

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen. ~ Thomas Hughes

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs. ~ Jonah Goldberg

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers. ~ Thomas Jefferson

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death. ~ Robert Bolt

The sceptical attack [on free will philosophy's concept of libertarian freedom] amounts simply to a dogmatic determination to describe the world only in terms that already exclude freedom as a distinctive feature of human life. The sceptic assumes that the world can contain no power other than causation; and that any event that is not causally determined by prior events must just be random. But if we insist on describing the world only in these terms, then of course it may well appear that libertarian freedom is not possible and cannot exist. But by what right do we so exclude such freedom from the very outset? ~ Thomas Pink

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food ... and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free. ~ Thomas S. Monson

As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process. ~ Thomas Berry

The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented, or pulled apart as we wished. ~ Lewis Thomas

My life is European. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down. ~ Thomas Hobbes

You dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom
hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air! ~ Thomas Hardy

We are ... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it ... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith? ~ Thomas Sowell

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans ... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art. ~ Thomas Eakins

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face. ~ Thomas North

Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure. ~ Thomas Helwys

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity. ~ Thomas Moore

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens. ~ Jodi Thomas

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit. ~ Debi Thomas

You are tired of always needing answers. Always answering questions. Always asking questions that demand answers. Pretending all the questions have to be answered. Pretending there are actually answers. And even getting paid to convince others they're true. That there is such a thing as right answers. ~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. ~ Thomas Campbell

There was no smell, no texture, no temperature to it. It had as much substance as a politician's promise. ~ Patrick Thomas

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. ~ Thomas Merton

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. ~ Thomas Troward

It's not the things you don't want that drag you under. It's the things you think you want.
Those, are the killers. ~ Iain S. Thomas

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. ~ Thomas Starr King

Is memory property? If two people remember something differently is one of them wrong? ~ Abigail Thomas

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Photography Works with a Creative mind. ~ Ackeem Thomas

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. ~ Thomas Carlyle

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance. ~ Thomas Haden Church

Children begin with detail, and learn up to the general; they begin with the contiguous, and gradually comprehend the universal. The boy seemed to have begun with the generals of life, and never to have concerned himself with the particulars. To him the houses, the willows, the obscure fields beyond, were apparently regarded not as brick residences, pollards, meadows; but as human dwellings in the abstract, vegetation, and the wide dark world. ~ Thomas Hardy

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time. ~ Thomas Jefferson

A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses. ~ Thomas Merton

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality. ~ Thomas Daniel Nehrer

All the luck in the world has to come every year, in every part of every year, or there is not a harvest and then the luck, the bad luck will come and everything we are, all that we can ever be, all the Einsteins and babies and love and hate, all the joy and sadness and sex and wanting and liking and disliking, all the soft summer breezes on cheeks and first snowflakes, all the Van Goghs and Rembrandts and Mozarts and Mahlers and Thomas Jeffersons and Lincolns and Ghandis and Jesus Christs, all the Cleopatras and lovemaking and riches and achievements and progress, all of that, every single damn thing that we are or ever will be is dependent on six inches of topsoil and the fact that the rain comes when it's needed and does not come when it is not needed; everything, every ... single ... thing comes with that luck. ~ Gary Paulsen