Sunthorn Phu Quotes & Sayings

Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it. — Walter Darby Bannard

You can be a loser all the time; but if you feel yourself like a winner, you will be a winner — Annabel Navarro

stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill. — Terry Goodkind

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in. — David Brooks

I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day. — Lalla Ward

Fooles give to please all but their owne. — George Herbert

When I was praised for my conduct I felt a guilt that in some way I was doing something that was really against the wishes of the white folks, that if they had understood they would have desired me to act just the opposite, that I should have been sulky and mean, and that that really would have been what they wanted, even though they were fooled and thought they wanted me to act as I did. It made me afraid that some day they would look upon me as a traitor and I would be lost. Still I was more afraid to act any other way because they didn't like that at all. — Ralph Ellison

Man to woman; man to man in letter words will stand
the philosophy of coming in along by the bay of hay
made so sublime be that it outlasts the coming time. — Richard Mc Sweeney

Act sensibly.
Act sincerely.
Act selflessly.
Act splendidly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother. — Rodney Dangerfield

To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has to launch alone. You cannot impose the inquiry of truth in the heart of your partner. You cannot compel your partner to have the same intensity or the same depth of inquiry. So irrespective of where you are, the voyage has to be launched upon alone. Taking the inward journey and arriving at silence, is a voyage in solitude. — Vimala Thakar

Merlin's beard, Harry, you made me jump," said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. "How did you get out of the castle?"
"I think Filch must've forgotten to lock the doors," said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl. — J.K. Rowling

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening. — Juliette Binoche

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy. — Phil Cooke

It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there - his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments. — Carl Sagan