Phrontis Quotes & Sayings

I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard! — Hugh Jackman

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum. — Sid Vicious

When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave. — William Shakespeare

I thought it was the opposite," Scarlett said. "The past is set but the future is changeable?" "No. The past is only mostly set, and the future is harder to change than you would think. — Stephanie Garber

What's worse? Being strung out or being fat? — Nikki Sixx

The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see where you put your steps. — Irina Serban

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place? — Art Buchwald

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it. — Sigmund Freud

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses. — Mahatma Gandhi

You absolutely don't know what's going to happen next - that's surrender. — Art Hochberg

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women. — James Frey

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing. — Dale Carnegie

I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable, and take human nature as you find it, smiling when it's absurd and grieved without exaggeration when it's pitiful, is to be cynical, then I suppose I'm a cynic. Mostly human nature is both absurd and pitiful, but if life has taught you tolerance you find in it more to smile at than to weep.
[The back of beyond] — W. Somerset Maugham

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize. — Richard Francis Burton