People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in… — Cree Summer 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
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
Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and… — Margaret Guenther Copy Share Image
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. — Christopher Hitchens 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
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our… — Dorothy Norman 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
“We seldom look like the way we look like when people we like are looking.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what… — Antonin Scalia 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
If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged… — Ron Fournier 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
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
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Trump makes no pretense about being the commander in chief of all of the country, being president of all of the people,… — Steve Schmidt 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 are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed. — Ted Simmons Copy Share Image
