We Pretend Quotes
59 quotes by 52 authors
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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We are what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission to…
— Lynn Coady
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
— Socrates
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the…
— David Brooks
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We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.
— Robert Bloch
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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…
— Marian Engel
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Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate…
— Marcus Berkmann
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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings…
— Adyashanti
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We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will…
— K.P. Yohannan
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We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be,…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
— Jonathan Swift
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We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.
— Indra Nooyi
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But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what…
— Leon Kass
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as…
— E. M. Forster
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All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future…
— William Gibson
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We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We pretend to be strong because we are weak.
— Paulo Coelho
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