R.A. Mathis > R.A.'s Quotes

“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
― Winston Churchill

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings

“Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.”
― Herman Melville

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.”
― R.A. Mathis

“No one believes in Hell--until they get there.”
― R.A. Mathis, Ghosts of Babylon

“The difference between the right spouse and the wrong spouse is the difference between a soul mate and a cell mate.”
― R.A. Mathis

“Superstition is that which we know in our minds to be rubbish. Faith is that which we hope in our hearts to be true.”
― R.A. Mathis, Ghosts of Babylon

“Fourth quarter field goals often wins games; first quarter field goals often lose them.”
― R.A. Mathis

“There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either.”
― R.A. Mathis, Falling Down: Part 1 of the Homeland Series

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde