No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find. — Buju Banton Copy Share Image
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
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
I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“Looking the part is not my role. So do not expect to see an image of pretense in my life. Because that… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“Authenticity is the sine qua non of everything that matters. When you encounter someone unguarded, without artifice or pretense--Mon Dieu!--you know it.… — Ellen Lubin-Sherman Copy Share Image
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then,… — Edith Wharton 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
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
“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
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,… — Joseph Stiglitz 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
There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln 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
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . . — Arianna Huffington 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
We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw 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
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. — Criss Jami 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
“Whatever is above will be managed by the powers above you. Don’t live as a man, pretending to be God. Do what… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
