Pretend Quotes

1734 Pretend quotes by 1217 unique authors

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was,… — Art Buchwald
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a… — Walter E. Williams
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is… — Isaac Newton
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of… — Charles Lamb
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine
Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. — Anna Wintour
One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height… — Robert Kiyosaki
So what is the difference between "power thinking" and "positive" thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend… — T. Harv Eker
We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should… — Mao Zedong
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian… — Sadie Frost
We are what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists… — Phillip E. Johnson
Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot… — Rajneesh
You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that. — Claire Bloom
You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can… — Ezra Koenig
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody… — Christian Bale
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened. — Margaret Mead
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even… — Cheon Eunbi
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no… — Freya Stark
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute… — Jerry A. Coyne
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. — Bell Hooks
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume

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