Thomas Elkin Quotes

I have a black belt in sarcasm, and my wit is like lightning. ~ N.R. Walker

Men are not good in truth when they are good by halves. ~ Thomas Watson

As long as I live and breathe, I will be with you. ~ Sherry Thomas

It's more than a game. It's an institution. ~ Thomas Hughes

So . . . you want me to fall in love with you, while you play kissing games with another girl? ~ Sherry Thomas

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. ~ Thomas Fuller

Remember how they outlawed acid soon as they found out it was a channel to somethin they didn't want us to see? Why should information be any different? ~ Thomas Pynchon

Ah, tell them they are men! ~ Thomas Gray

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

I choose you, James Thomas Kellan MacCrae,to be my king and coruler. ~ Carey Corp

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman. ~ Thomas Steinbeck

Such women as you a hundred men always convet - your eyes will only bewitch scores on scores into the unvailing fancy for you - you can only marry one of that many. Out of these say twenty will will endeavour to drown the bitterness of despised love in drink; twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in the world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you; twenty more - the suspectible person myself possibly among them - will be always draggling after you, getting where they may just see you, doing desperate things. Men are such constant fools! The rest may try to get over their passion with more or less success. But all of these men will be saddened. And not only those ninety-nine men, but the ninety-nine women they might have married are saddened with them. There's my tale. That's why I say that a woman so charming as yourself, Miss Everdene, is hardly a blessing to her race (Ch. 26) ~ Thomas Hardy

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart. ~ Thomas Watson

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was. ~ Thomas Goodwin

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The technology distracted us from our lack of answers to anything that mattered. It gave us a lesser form of magic to wield to appease us. ~ Kitty Thomas

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric. ~ Thomas Sowell

Everything faded away except one emotion. One so pure and innocent that it seemed intangible. I was encompassed and filled with a sensation that was consuming, warming me throughout. There was a word that was the closest thing to describe it, but the gravity he held of it was so much more than a word could possibly convey. He saw everything I was to God, to this world, to his own heart. Our souls were entwined with it, our destinies written by it, our hearts beat to it.
Love. ~ Ashlan Thomas

Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out about this new weapon,' he said. 'Are the American hitters plotting to murder him? ~ Thomas Boswell

When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world. ~ Thomas Friedman

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism; ... to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way. ~ Thomas John Barnardo

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. ~ Thomas Browne

And when I asked you how you'd been, I meant I missed you more than I've ever missed anything before. ~ Iain Thomas

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy ~ Thomas Hobbes

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money. ~ Thomas Gresham

Problem Identification and General Needs and Targeted Needs Assessments. The problem identification and general needs assessment for a curriculum ~ Patricia A. Thomas

Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled. ~ Thomas Malthus

Joan Durbeyfield always manged to find consolation somewhere: 'Well, as one of the genuine stock, she ought to make her way with 'en, if she plays her trump car aright. And if he don't marry her afore he will after. For that he's all afire wi' love for her any eye can see.'
'What's her trump card? Her d'Urberville blood, you mean?'
'No, stupid; her face - as 'twas mine. ~ Thomas Hardy

Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian. ~ Thomas Goodwin

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer. ~ Thomas McGuire

With the strength of a vow, I knew this woman was made for me, she belonged with me, and hers were the only lips I was meant to kiss. She was the only woman I would dream of when I closed my eyes. When she smiled, the sun shone brightly, warming me, and when she cried, the Heavens rained on my soul. I would guard her and protect her, our souls forever linked in life and death. ~ Ashlan Thomas

The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond. ~ Thomas Paine

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me. ~ Marlo Thomas

I was just a kid, Thomas said, surprising himself. ~ James Dashner

Leaders are not born that way…they are developed through their experiences and their internal work. What good is an opinion where you don't have a responsibility? Leadership is practiced in attitude and actions … and results in inspiring achievement. Don't take yourself too seriously but do take your work seriously. ~ Thomas Smith

The end of every maker is himself. ~ Thomas Aquinas

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers. ~ Clarence Thomas

I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God. ~ Thomas De Witt Talmage

All journeys meet crossroads. Where the river ends, the ocean begins. We must have the courage to embark on these journeys, to choose our paths, and to let go of the boat once we are across the river. ~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset. ~ Evan Thomas

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The value of an idea lies in the using of it. ~ Thomas A. Edison

These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you. They are sent to call to your mind that which you have received of His goodness, that you may trust Him in your distress. ~ James Thomas

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why. ~ Dylan Thomas

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say. ~ Thomas Hardy

Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Pity Catherine Martin won't ever see the sun again. The sun's a mattress fire her God died in, Clarice. ~ Thomas Harris

I think of people more kindly when I am away from them. ~ Thomas Hardy