Pretenderen Quotes & Sayings

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata

I'm not interested in just putting out one hit. — Lee DeWyze

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage! — Virchand Gandhi

But the joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place. — Theodore Roosevelt

Flora took pleasure in the delicacy of her approach and studied the ways of the smallest, sweetest blooms she could find, tiny pimpernels and forget-me-nots hiding in the pockets of the fields. The energy of the sun on her body and the joy of foraging filled her soul. She flew the fields and gathered until the light began to fade and she heard the sound of her forager sisters' wings turning for home. Then she joined them. — Laline Paull

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel. — James Prescott Joule

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle. — John Lancaster Spalding

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout

When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale. — Debasish Mridha

Fellowship with Christ does not exist apart from fealty to Christ. — Kevin DeYoung

Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell. — Maggie Kuhn

Sometimes ... a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for. — Jessi Kirby

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place. — Steve Aoki

She allowed the sweet thrill of hearing Mack Logan's voice, even in the background, run through her before she dismissed it as another childhood fantasy. When they'd been best friends as children, she'd had an unbounded belief in mermaids and fairies, in fairytales and nature's mysteries. She'd believed she could fly with Peter Pan, breathe underwater, walk without touching the ground. And she believed Mack Logan loved her. Reality had a way of ruining a girl's dreams. — Patti Callahan Henry