Pretendo Network Quotes & Sayings

Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.
Watch exercise shows on television, but don't do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.
Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap. — SARK

Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war? — Ronald Reagan

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore. — Ernest Hemingway,

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. — Voltaire

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. — Henry Ward Beecher

Self-reflection, the ability to make of his own deepest feelings an object which he could set before him and pay it tribute, and, in the next breath, perhaps, ridicule it, was a thing he had developed to the highest degree. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not? — Ann Brashares

Walt: Do you miss the good old days?

Gracie: How old?

Walt: When we were old enough to be good.

Gracie: We were never that old, Wally. Or that young. — Sean Condon

An investigation found the specific people who authorized the warrantless wiretapping of millions and millions of communications, which per count would have resulted in the longest sentences in world history, and our highest official simply demanded the investigation be halted. Who "can" be brought up on charges is immaterial when the rule of law is not respected. Laws are meant for you, not for them. — Edward Snowden

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time. — Simon McBurney

Love promises happily ever after, it boldly professes forever - but delivers only one thing - a reckless brand of hope. — Addison Moore