We Pretend Quotes

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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne
We are what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut
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… — Unknown Author
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. — Socrates
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
We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be. — Robert Bloch
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
We are lived by powers we pretend to understand. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. — Jonathan Swift
We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all. — Indra Nooyi
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
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
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
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut
We pretend to be strong because we are weak. — Paulo Coelho
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because… — Soren Kierkegaard
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is… — Louise Erdrich
We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to… — Daphne du Maurier
In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the… — Jack Kornfield

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