Phronesis Aristotle Quotes & Sayings

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated. — Oswald Chambers

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me. — Martha Gellhorn

Renunciation of many good things is needed to break our bondage to the fragmenting forces of our society, which most of us have internalized, as if busyness on many fronts were a virtue instead of a vice. — David Janzen

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A well-used minimum suffices for everything. — Jules Verne

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future. — Eleanor Brown

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. — George Santayana

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade. — Confucius

All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Tom Spanbauer

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive. — Irving Ravetch

People say we need royalty. We have royalty in the United States - the Kardashians. — David Letterman

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there. — Chris O'Dowd