“I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day;… — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work.… — John Fante Copy Share Image
The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Do you think any of my brothers truly wish to die? The pretense is more insulting to my father’s cold body than… — Shen Tao Copy Share Image
It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as… — Philip the Apostle Copy Share Image
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of… — Gideon Raff Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and… — Janos Kadar Copy Share Image
The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance.… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown;… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
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