Pretend Quotes

1734 Pretend quotes by 1217 unique authors

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing. — Frank Iero
We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look… — Pope Francis
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit,… — Gillian Flynn
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep… — Robertson Davies
Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown menâ€”at least he always did when he was a kidâ€”because they pretend… — Russell Banks
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause… — Woodrow Wilson
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. — Peter Kropotkin
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. — Alva Myrdal
Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a… — Jerome Rothenberg
I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do… — Greil Marcus
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend youâ€™re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either.… — Maria Callas
The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional… — Meryl Streep
In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. — Jane Hirshfield
Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend. — Eric Sevareid
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. — Roy Lichtenstein
I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well. — Jay Sekulow
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as… — Richard Lewontin

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