Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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
“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
“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr 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
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each… — Frederic Bastiat 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
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of… — Criss Jami 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
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to… — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will… — Henry Miller 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
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without… — Anonymous 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
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses… — Lionel Strachey Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort… — Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.” — Ann Whitman Copy Share Image
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. — David Hume 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
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible? — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
