Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles… — Anchee Min 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
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and… — Janos Kadar Copy Share Image
“As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In an artistic sense, cool came to refer to someone with a signature artistic style so integral as to exude an authentic… — Joel Dinerstein Copy Share Image
Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something… — Amrom Harry Katz Copy Share Image
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs 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
“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of… — Henry George 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
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge… — Camille Paglia 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
In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work.… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day;… — Jody Gehrman 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
If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and… — Margaret Guenther Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
Over the first two weeks of the Donald Trump administration, Steve Bannon has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
