Quotes with pretend

Quotes 41 till 60 of 68.

  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with our whole heart whom we pretend to worship.
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  • Berenice Bejo The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal 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
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • James Agate The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
    James Agate
    English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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  • Freya Stark The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Douglas Adams The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Umberto Eco The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Harriet Martineau The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Billy Campbell There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Billy Collins There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl Sagan Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Adolfo Aguilar Zinser We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
    Psychological types: or, The psychology of individuation (1926)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Irving We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 330
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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