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
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
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences… — Audre Lorde 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
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
“It takes patience to listen. It takes skill to pretend you’re listening.” — Harmon okinyo Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is… — Alan Watts 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
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
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
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
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of… — Henry Fuseli 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
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
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison 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
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
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
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
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
