Pretend Quotes

1734 Pretend quotes by 1217 unique authors

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine… — John Dewey
We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be. — Robert Bloch
You can pretend anything and master it. — Milton H. Erickson
God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify… — William Gurnall
The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through… — Thomas Merton
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee
I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living. — Jeri Ryan
I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right… — Martin Parr
It's often said that the Democrats fight 'for the little guy.' That's true: liberals fight to make sure the little guy stays little! Think about… — Angela McGlowan
Do not pretend - be. Do not promise - act. Do not dream - realize. — Mirra Alfassa
To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that… — Jesse Helms
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with… — Clarence Darrow
Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the… — Jose Marti
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light… — Matthew Pearl
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust… — Michael Swanwick
You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from… — Chris Martin
Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through… — Unknown Author
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. — Douglas Coupland
I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete. — Unknown Author
You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous. — Donatella Versace
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either, — Ben Bernanke
The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get. — Joanna Hoffman
People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There's always… — Charlie Munger
We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is… — David Platt

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