We Pretend Quotes

59 quotes by 45 authors

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
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish… — Hayley Williams
Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like… — Colum McCann
We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. — Patrick Rothfuss
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they… — Jodi Picoult
With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not… — H P Lovecraft
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to… — Margaret George
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not… — Haruki Murakami
What about a man who sits down to wonder Why life has cheated him? Thinks about his situation Hangs his head and cries Will we… — Mitch Albom
We all become what we pretend to be. — Patrick Rothfuss
When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior. — Louise Rennison
You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we… — Gayle Forman
We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate. — Chuck Klosterman
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. — Robert Breault
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective,… — Beau Willimon
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be. — Sebastian Horsley

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