A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“A sweetened poison may go down more easily but will kill you just as surely.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Some instances of help offered by others at crucial moments are merely pretentious or simply insincere. — Chandrababu VS Copy Share Image
“The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense… — Paolo Pellegrin Copy Share Image
I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration,… — Kool A.D Copy Share Image
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
You'd think with all the magazines and the covers and all the sexy stuff I've done, that that's hugely a part of… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like that breeder-woman sitting at the bar, who thinks it's a buzz to go into a gay joint and has no doubt… — Johanna Sinisalo Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Pretense is a block of which a bright future to be crash upon; so, don't pretend but be exactly what you are… — Stephen George Copy Share Image
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I… — Thomas R. Marshall Copy Share Image
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