There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Whatever is above will be managed by the powers above you. Don’t live as a man, pretending to be God. Do what… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our… — Dorothy Norman Copy Share Image
Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“Fakery is a vital currency in our social intercourse. That’s not necessarily all bad. A lot of the time we pretend as… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I love Renée Zellweger, she can do no wrong in my eyes. I relate to every character she embodies, because she has… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I… — Thomas R. Marshall Copy Share Image
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Pretense is a block of which a bright future to be crash upon; so, don't pretend but be exactly what you are… — Stephen George Copy Share Image
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.” — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come.… — Jimmy Wayne Copy Share Image
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them. — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“as well. Any pretense I had that I was prepared was quickly replaced with the pain I’d become” — George Hincapie Copy Share Image