#thom

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. ↗

— Julian Castro

#back #brains #classmates #difference #dreams

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#more #office #portrait #saint #thomas

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#thomas #life

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook. ↗

— Carrot Top

#could #doing #go #gone #hook

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. ↗

— Robert Trout

#american republic #behind #easily #examining #example

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. ↗

— William Godwin

#ocean #shore #unfathomable #without

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#ago #different #different sounds #important #looking

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#rick-yancey #death

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#father #hardy #i #lawrence #mother