Quotes About Pretend

If I fall down the stairs," she added in a low dry voice, "and end up sprawled at the bottom in front of all those swells, I'm going to pretend that I'm dead. You tell someone to haul me off to the nearest boardinghouse, then go have your supper.

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.

But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong.

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

At school, I couldn't help but grin. At home, something ripped under my skin when I smiled, trying to pretend that everything was fine. Deadly moods lurked in a purple-white haze, smoke clinging to the curtains, turning stale overnight.

And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think: How far, HOW FAR, we are willing to go to pretend we are not of the body at all.

The surge of ninety thousand poor Central Americans across the border in 2014 proved that. Obama pretended his hands were tied. It's the law! It wasn't the law. So either Obama is stupid or he was deliberately lying, and the smart money is on "deliberately lying.

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

On top of this was the official indigenous Egyptian government that, though it was quite toothless, various British officials periodically felt the need to pretend to consult in order to maintain the appearance that the wishes of the actual inhabitants of Egypt somehow mattered.

It's really chaos and darkness out there, and when we prétend it's not, it's just The Play. We're all onstage. Saying our lines. Playing at whoever we're trying to be at the moment. A lawyer. A spouse. Even though we know in the back of our heads that life is a lot more random and messed-up than we can ud to say to ourselves.

Legislatures and parliaments can get together and pretend to change God's laws, but it has no effect on eternal truth.

The blasphemy of the papists is damnable, when they pretend that the light of Scripture merely dazzles the eye. This

All is pretense, but we must be careful what we pretend to be, because that is what we must become.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

My compliance without participation began to disorientate him. I thought, as always in those circumstances, that I should pretend a yearning and uncontrolled passion or push him away. But I didn't dare to either one or the other: I was afraid I would throw up, because the result would be earthquake-like waves. I had only to wait.

Do you have your book?" "No, it's not out yet." "A copy of the last one you wrote?" "Yes." "Take it and sit here, pretend to be reading." I obeyed in a daze. Tina grabbed a book, too, and assumed the same pose, saying to Imma: Take a picture of me.

To give yourself over to an evil is, in some measure, to pretend that what you know is wrong is right, and then, to justify yourself, you must give yourself over to it all the more.

A person who just pretends to be good only preaches to stay away from negative guys , but one who is truly positive shows also to others the sign of spotting the toxic people.

One of the rules to identify the fools is that they will divide themselves into supporters and detractors to the powerful people who pretend to be in opposition to one another in public but in reality they are together only.

They are paid actors who can do anything for publicity, promotion, commission or gaining big position, even could pretend to be ill with virus, hospitalized and on medication.

Giving it those ones' is Delhi School of Architecture slang for 'faking it big time'.