Quotes of: Pretensions Keyword

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Freda Adler

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

David Duchovny

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Emmet Fox

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

Good God, is the man a heathen?’ ‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.

Impression of Bones

Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

Miuccia Prada

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Aleister Crowley

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

Chris Ware

BDSM is about dropping the pretenses; I want you completely exposed.

With This Collar

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.

Towards Another Summer

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Killosophy

The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history.

Sacrifice: A New Dawn

We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of “just kidding.

David W. Earle

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

Life

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

Grace

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Vincent D'Onofrio