I look for a girl without pretense who is sweet and intelligent - preferably brunette, but that's not completely important. — Lucas Till 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
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone.… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what… — Ambrose Bierce 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
Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,… — Leo Tolstoy 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
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible? — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else,… — Leonid Borodin 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
Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. — John Tillotson 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
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