“If we get separated there’s not much hope of us ever meeting anywhere, but I need to keep up the pretense of… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in… — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I don't like bullshit and pretense. I can't enjoy the joy at church... without some cash in my wallet.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk,… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting… — Guy Adams Copy Share Image
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“In an artistic sense, cool came to refer to someone with a signature artistic style so integral as to exude an authentic… — Joel Dinerstein Copy Share Image
“Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“The smear artist reveals himself by his disparate treatment of people and situations. He drapes himself in a superhero cape, claiming to… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible? — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
“When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“I don't impressed if you're a religious person. I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed. — Ted Simmons Copy Share Image
