Pretendia In English Quotes & Sayings

The framers of the Constitution realized that ... there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty. — Elihu Root

It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation. — David Byrne

A scholar's weapon is his pen;
a sage's weapon, his deeds. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Commies love concrete. — P. J. O'Rourke

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country. — Brendan Gill

Consider that children grow more quickly in spring and summer than in fall and winter, and that this is apparently due to sunlight signals that enter through the eyeballs, since the growth of totally blind children consists of similar fluctuations but are not synchronized with the seasons. — David Epstein

God does not change, but our readiness for such a God takes a long time to change. — Richard Rohr

I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer! — Samuel Colbran

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one. — Raul Julia

The demons in my mind are far away, and there is only her sweet voice, singing a song I've never heard... — Ella James

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore