Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending. — Colson Whitehead
If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too. — Unknown Author
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as… — Richard Lewontin
I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his… — Jack Handey
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could… — Elizabeth Moon
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where… — Roger Waters
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
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to… — Robert Liparulo
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you… — Herman Wouk
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene… — Irvine Welsh
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge,… — Tucker Max
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard
I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal and… — Haile Selassie
I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re… — Dan Savage
Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are… — Matthew Ashford
You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be. You're all love,… — Marcus Thomas
In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends… — Erich Heller
I was like, `Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson`s here!` ... I was freaking out, pretending like I didn`t see her. Then Ashlee Simpson walked right… — Lauren Conrad
Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t… — Charles Lee
For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing… — Bo Sanchez
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. — Emanuel Celler
Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The… — Rajneesh
The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the… — John Kuhn
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. — Lincoln Peirce
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of… — Ernest Becker

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