Pretend Quotes - page 3

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. (Gene Tierney)
And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous. View quote
Mac Thornberry
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four. View quote
Radha Mitchell
Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand. View quote
José Martí
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. View quote
Kinky Friedman
My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Democrats have to figure out why the white working class just voted overwhelmingly against its own economic interests, not pretend that a bit more populism would solve the problem. View quote
Paul Krugman
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's a clever anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. View quote
Banksy
And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind. View quote
James Frey
All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." (Jimmy Wales)
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. View quote
Harper Lee
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Even in my age now, I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, "is that you?” "Let's pretend it isn't,” said Rabbit, "and see what happens. View quote
A. A. Milne
We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different. View quote
Neil Gaiman
It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks. View quote
David Gemmell
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. (Bell hooks)
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. View quote
Hermann Hesse
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! View quote
Edith Wharton
Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton