Quotes About Pretend

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed at least one must pretend to.

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

That was part of the job, to pretend to listen, to feign concern. There are three professions who play at that game; barkeeps are the ones who do it on their feet.

It's not just that some people get to break the rules—it's that loyalty to the organization is to some degree measured by one's willingness to pretend this isn't happening.

Being forced to pretend to work just for the sake of working is an indignity, since the demand is perceived—rightly—as the pure exercise of power for its own sake.

Social theory is largely a game of make-believe in which we pretend, just for the sake of argument, that there's just one thing going on: essentially, we reduce everything to a cartoon so as to be able to detect patterns that would be otherwise invisible.

Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.

SINNERS are those who pretend to teach meditation

The best I can do is to 'pretend' that I'm my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I'm not pretending, and somehow that doesn't sound very god-like to me.

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Fake a smile. No one knows you're broken.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.