Pretend Quotes

1734 Pretend quotes by 1217 unique authors

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history,… — Derrick Jensen
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the… — Rebecca Solnit
I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something… — Jeanette Winterson
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not… — Geraldine Brooks
Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the… — Ted Dekker
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to… — Jean Webster
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.… — David Gerrold
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of… — Charles de Lint
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. — Robert Henri
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist,… — John Green
Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend — Kurt Cobain
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the… — Jodi Picoult
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… — Jorge Luis Borges
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that… — Banksy
You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is… — Ellen Hopkins
if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes… — W. Somerset Maugham
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to… — Albert Camus
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that… — Alberto Manguel
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because… — Soren Kierkegaard
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you… — Sarah Dessen
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is… — Louise Erdrich

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