“Expectations are illusions; Pretense they hang on thin threads.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann 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
I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . . — Arianna Huffington 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
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
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to… — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration,… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win… — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners… — Elisabeth Marbury 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
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
[T]he vast regulatory structure the federal government has erected in the name of the commerce power cannot be ended overnight, in many… — Roger Pilon 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
“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
There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is…Most people love you for who you pretend… — Jim Morrison 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
“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
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
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