Renette Pistol Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it. — Patty Hearst

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. — E. O. Wilson

Occupied people are not unhappy people. — Orville Dewey

It is harder to cut our gains than our losses. — Elizabeth Bibesco

A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can have our emotions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing emotions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine. The intellectual and emotional life of ordinary people is a very contemptible affair. Just as they borrow their ideas from a sort of circulating library of thought - -the Zeitgeist of an age that has no soul - -and send them back soiled at the end of each week, so they always try to get their emotions on credit, and refuse to pay the bill when it comes in. You should pass out of that conception of life. As soon as you have to pay for an emotion you will know its quality, and be the better for such knowledge. And remember that the sentimentalist is always a cynic at heart. Indeed, sentimentality is merely the bank holiday of cynicism. — Oscar Wilde

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people. — Fennel Hudson

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets. — Kevin Pietersen