Pretentiously Quotes

#1. One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#2. When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.

E. Lockhart

#3. Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

Octavia E. Butler

#5. You, Baylor Irene Moore, are the most gorgeous and driven and smartest woman I've ever set eyes on. You're not even gone yet, and I miss you.

Toni Aleo

#6. The thing about light is that it really isn't yours; it's what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.

Anne Lamott

#7. You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy
to be effective must be mechanically applied.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#8. When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.

Kuno Becker

#9. My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Nina Simone

#10. I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

Brian Eno

#11. Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net.

Thomas Friedman

#12. The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#13. What if history was changed? slavery reversed
Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

Fredro Starr

#14. The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

Tariq Ramadan

#15. conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.

John Piper