Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“as well. Any pretense I had that I was prepared was quickly replaced with the pain I’d become” — George Hincapie 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
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come.… — Jimmy Wayne Copy Share Image
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration,… — Tracy Anne Warren 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
I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win… — Dominick Dunne 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
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk,… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“Fakery is a vital currency in our social intercourse. That’s not necessarily all bad. A lot of the time we pretend as… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded,… — Peter McWilliams 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
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the… — George W. Bush 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
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
“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
I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be… — David G. McAfee 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
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
