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
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I look for a girl without pretense who is sweet and intelligent - preferably brunette, but that's not completely important. — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“It takes patience to listen. It takes skill to pretend you’re listening.” — Harmon okinyo Copy Share Image
“Looking the part is not my role. So do not expect to see an image of pretense in my life. Because that… — Calvin W. Allison 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
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
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 insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by… — Lord Chesterfield 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
I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else,… — Leonid Borodin Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams 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
“That dung flop?” Nakita said, her dislike almost visibly dripping into nasty puddles at Amy’s designer flats. “Yes, I guess. That doesn’t… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann 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
