Quotes About Pretend

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

One's past is not one's destiny, and it is self-serving to pretend that it is. If henceforth I were miserable, it would be my own fault: and I vowed never to waste my substance on petty domestic conflict.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

I mean, you can pretend up to a certain point that the world has infinite resources and that it's an infinite wastebasket-but at some point you're going to run into the reality, which is that that isn't true.

The Chief is an infantile megalomaniac, and very effective con man, who couldn't care less if the world burns or explodes, as long as he can pretend to be the winner as he two-steps over the cliff waving his little red hat triumphantly.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

Marla said, This isn't like when guys sit backward on the toilet and pretend it's a motorcycle. This is a genuine accident.

Don't take this the wrong way, okay? She chuckled grimly. My idea of Hell would be going to Heaven and being forced to pretend I'm like you for the rest of eternity.

Women who'd never had any particular interest in D/s read a popular BDSM pulp novel for their book club. Now they think they're into the scene. But all they really want is maybe a blindfold or a playful, pretend spanking.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Often before falling asleep - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and enter the greater world - often, before having the courage to go toward the greatness of sleep, I pretend that someone is holding my hand and I go, go toward the enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even then I can't find the courage, then I dream.

At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

Oh, geez." Noah feigns that I've shot an arrow into his cchcest and falls on the ground. "You''re killing mme, Hannah, you''re killllllinnngg mmmmee.

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. All those times he'd pretended to lose her.

Let's pretend," he says, "that you never met me. That she was never born. That none of this ever happened." Then he is gone.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.

We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.

Something else is hurting you but it's easier to pretend it's not. Because, It hurts being the one who loves more.

There are times when you tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

Your empty promises.... Are the moments I had to pretend that I was strong and unbreakable while my heart was aching inside.

Knowledge truly is power, it's everything; if you don't have any, pretend you do.

Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

I would love to pretend I don't diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. Anybody who says otherwise is either unhealthy or lying! I will admit that I'm addicted to sugar - licorice, Jujubees and jelly candies. And I actually love bran muffins!