Thomas Rainwater Quotes

There’s only two roads in this life. One’s wide as a highway, full of choices. The other one’s pencil thin with only two directions.

Grief isn’t meant to be shared. But comfort is.[to John]

Corporations hate “complicated”. And they need to see a return. They have the money. They have the manpower. They have the influence and the reach, but the one thing corporations never have is time. It’s their only enemy.

You can’t trust anyone. You been doing this long enough to know that.[to Dan]

When there’s one thing that two men want, they can either share it or be enemies.

There is no such thing as a good man. All men are bad. But some of us try real hard to be good.

The good thing about maps is if you don’t like the path that you’re on, you can always choose another.

That’s this nation’s policy toward us, always has been. If we want a better life, all we have to do is stop being Indian.

Politicians are like crabs. We move sideways to go forward.

Modern society wants people to go to school and learn a trade to make money to buy food, clothes, a place to live. But on land that hasn’t been ravaged by man, you don’t need to buy food. You just go find it. You don’t buy clothes, you make them. And you don’t build houses, you seek shelter. You live with the land. Not on it.

It’s always the innocent who pay most dearly for the things we men do.

Inequity must be witnessed to be changed.