Quotes of: Pretended Keyword

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Alva Myrdal

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

James Spader

Don't tell your problems to people because no one cares anyway , but in fact they pretend !

Ahmad Dwidar

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

Amy Winehouse

Stupid. Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

Veronica Roth

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

Willa Ford

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Michael B. Jordan

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James

Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but the Soul of me—the wild, restless, breathless, discontented soul of me—never sat down before in all its life—I say, un...

The Indiscreet Letter

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called...

The Setting Sun

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Deathless

...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.

Elizabeth Costello

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Ender's Game

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true.

City of Ashes

I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

Kate Bush

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet