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
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box 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
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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
“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
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
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
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a… — Elisabeth Elliot 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
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
The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense… — Emily Post 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
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
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
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
“A veil of pretense can definitely conceal your dumbness but then it assures the proliferation of your dumbness instead of stagnating it… — Ayesha 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
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
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each… — Frederic Bastiat 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
How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods… — Mary Faustina Kowalska 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
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 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
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
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
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
