What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I don't like bullshit and pretense. I can't enjoy the joy at church... without some cash in my wallet.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity… — Harriet Lerner 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
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
[T]he vast regulatory structure the federal government has erected in the name of the commerce power cannot be ended overnight, in many… — Roger Pilon Copy Share Image
I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself… — August Sander Copy Share Image
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Perfect' - the most misattributed word in English language A 'perfect' thing can never be improved - at least by what the… — Eniitan Akinola Copy Share Image
He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is…Most people love you for who you pretend… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense” — Munia Khan 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
“A veil of pretense can definitely conceal your dumbness but then it assures the proliferation of your dumbness instead of stagnating it… — Ayesha Copy Share Image
“He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
“When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
“I don't impressed if you're a religious person. I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
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