Pretant Quotes & Sayings

you're a writer when we (I) know what you truly are: a performer, an exhibitionist. — Caroline Kepnes

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you. — Pittacus Of Mytilene

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America. — Susumu Tonegawa

How does one get help when they have no money~ or how does one get money when they have no help? — Nina Montgomery

I think...I shall call ye Beauty, for I shall be yer beast. — Vonnie Davis

The devil is busy
trying to take from us
what we get from God,
and so God bids us hold fast. — C. Nuzum

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. — Albert Camus

Love life, love light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know? — John Kruk

I refuse to live in ignorance and helplessness. — Amber Argyle

There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of
the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on.
All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all
going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
— Charles Bukowski

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having. — Adam Duritz

The distance between grinding poverty and even stable poverty could be so vast that those at the bottom had little hope of climbing out even if they pinched every penny. So they chose not to. Instead, they tried to survive in color, to season the suffering with pleasure. They would get a little high or have a drink or do a bit of gambling or acquire a television. They might buy lobster on food stamps. — Matthew Desmond

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. — Jules De Goncourt

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl. — Martin Gore