Pretended Quotes

183 Pretended quotes by 161 unique authors

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the… — Jeffrey Kluger
I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. — Patti LaBelle
Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation. — Ida Lupino
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from… — James Madison
At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like… — Joyce Meyer
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions… — Mike Mills
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. — David Sedaris
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things,… — Adam Smith
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. — George Washington
I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head… — Niecy Nash
To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off;… — Carlos Castaneda
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat… — Blaise Pascal
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… — Rohinton Mistry
When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights.… — Sarah Addison Allen
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd… — Janet Fitch
I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy. — Dave Eggers
I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic. — Miranda July
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when… — J. R. Moehringer
It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in… — Betty Smith
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and… — Edmund Burke
As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too.… — Sarah Dessen
I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked… — Janet Fitch
She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Will you be quiet?" he asked, smiling down at her. She nodded. He pretended to think about it. "I don't believe you/" She planted her… — Julia Quinn
And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger. — Melissa de la Cruz

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