Stop Being Pretentious Quotes & Sayings

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. — Thomas Clarkson

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery. — Molly Haskell

It's just my opinion, you see, and opinions are like assholes: everybody has one. They — Stephen King

Man is free the moment he wants to be. — Voltaire

What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital ... the machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like.' -Richard Dawkins — Matt Ridley

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives. — Stephen King

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy
a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. — Ayn Rand

The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. — Mary Wesley

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows. — Rajneesh

I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world — Natalie Portman

Political balance among the competing groups was unstable because the king had no permanent armed force at his command. — Barbara W. Tuchman

She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel — Terry Pratchett

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. — Bernie Sanders