Pretense Quotes

166 quotes by 146 authors

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world… — Holly Lisle
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up… — Kristin Cashore
Ah, those were the daysâ€¦The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the Hunters couldnâ€™t go… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be.… — Jim Morrison
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis… — Tim O'Brien
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. — Megan Hart
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of?… — Dodie Smith
â€ŽWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat… — Thomas Jefferson
In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?â€ I stood and removed his shirt. â€œThen theyâ€™ll have a good story to tell.â€ â€œGood?â€… — Maria V. Snyder
I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from… — Rick Yancey
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has… — Thomas Bernhard
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude.… — Thomas Paine
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.'… — Abraham Lincoln
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. — C.E. Murphy
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her… — Laini Taylor
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question… — Joe Haldeman
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only… — Ellen Hopkins

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