Pretended Quotes
183 quotes by 168 authors
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother was suggesting that…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all,…
— Clarence Darrow
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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall…
— David Hume
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Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would…
— William Faulkner
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Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political…
— John Stuart Mill
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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
— Elbridge Gerry
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The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from…
— James Madison
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I never pretended to be a great actor.
— Joel McCrea
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Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man…
— Neil Gaiman
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The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be…
— James Madison
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I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to…
— Louise Glück
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Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France…
— Boris Brasol
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There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be…
— Michael Douglas
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Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible…
— Deborah Pryce
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The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here…
— John Owen
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The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may…
— Simon Brett
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We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins.…
— Thomas Paine
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If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what…
— Bertrand Russell
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