Quotes About Pretend

Ci dicono che se adesso ci impegniamo, il nostro futuro sarà felice... ma non esiste una garanzia del genere. Quindi vivi come più ti piace, senza pretendere di essere ciò che non puoi

Clearly there are kinds of sentimentality that media mobs favor. They condemn others as a way to pretend intellectual superiority.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.

I was raised to pretend.

To sentimentalize something is to savor rather than to suffer the sadness of it, is to sigh over the prettiness of it rather than to tremble at the beauty of it, which may make demands of us or pose fearsome threats.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Try to imagine that you're the strongest, most noble, most thoughtful, most compassionate, intelligent person in the world, and pretend to be that. Speak from that place. It's more than self-awareness; it's the ability to access this super-intelligence.

In the culture of madness 'reality' and 'representations' endlessly played off each other. What a crazy world in which the poor had to pretend to be mad in order to get a crust!

Unlike the adults, the children didn't have to pretend. They were full of praise for the umbrella. It was so light, so pretty, so bright a blue! And it was just the right size for Binya. They knew that if they said nice things about the umbrella, Binya would smile and give it to them to hold for a little while—just a very little while! Soon

You can pretend to be serious you can't pretend to be witty.

The more a politician pretended to hate something seemed to mean they were actually that thing.

Or it can be as subtle as to stop what you are doing and– without fear– turn your full attention to someone approaching and say, "That's close enough. What can I do for you?" Another is while maintaining the boundary pretend you don't know the answer to the question or have what he asks for.[26] This derails the typical robbery script.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

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.

Let's pretend this, let's pretend that. 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.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

I want you to promise we'll see each other again, you'll send a letter. Promise we'll be lost together in our forest, pale birches of our legs. I hear your voice now—I know, everyone knows promises come from fear. People don't live past each other, you're always here with me. Sometimes I pretend you're in the other room until it rains… and then this is the letter I always write...

One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty

I cannot pretend to be the mortal that once refused Lestat. I cannot reach back and claim that being's reimaginative heart.

The wisdom of peasants shows itself in their ability to pretend that they are fools.

We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.