Pretensions Def Quotes & Sayings

Never break what you have in hand because you found a better one — S.E. Sever

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far. — Gwen Stefani

Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world. — Hugh MacLeod

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. — Sam Levenson

These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed. — Thomas Hardy

A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good. — El-P

Gerard's spirit animal is a gazelle - that's how he's always answered - Frankie would definitely be a wolverine, I would be a shark because of my inability to sit still, and Ray? Ray would be ... I'm thinking super intelligent, super articulate, I would think owl. — Mikey Way

A steady exposure to distant human need that is beyond our personal response can gradually inoculate us against particular action ... Isolation from local need, and overexposure to overwhelming but distant need, make our responses to strangers uncertain and tentative at best.
We need to find or create contemporary equivalents of the city gate, community rituals, and small group meetings in which we can build preliminary relations with strangers. — Christine Pohl

Enough of this soul-searching. What would be, would be. She could only do what she thought was right. — Iris Johansen

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men. — Yasmin Mogahed

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. — Yves Klein

I didna accomplish anything. The king wasn't there. He prefers to rule Scotland from his palace in London. What has our country come to? — Donna Grant

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Insane was letting an opportunity pass you by. Insane was debating so long over what you wanted that it disappeared. — Erin McCarthy

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie. — Dennis Christopher