Quotes About Pretend

I was just wondering how long we were going to pretend like we annoyed each other before we started sleeping together.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

The real meaning of Love is TRUST, without it you have nothing. SOME people will PRETEND to TRUST someone out of fear of being ALONE. They still have NOTHING!

If anyone asks, I'll tell them we both just moved on. When people all stare, I'll pretend that I don't hear them talk

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.

Thus I come, most blessed Father, and in all abasement beseech you to put to your hand, if it is possible, and impose a curb to those flatterers who are enemies of peace, while they pretend peace.

The ones who are innocent help because they trust us. And the ones who aren't so innocent pretend to trust us because they're afraid of looking guilty.

There was a game called "Work." and on of the most-often-repeated Soviet jokes described it perfectly: "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.

Stoicism is about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the ensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, and does not provide specific answers: those are for fools (Epictetus's word) who think the world is black and white, good versus evil, where it is always possible to clearly tell the good guys from the bad guys. That is not the world we live in, and to pretend otherwise is more than a bit dangerous and not at all wise.

They have no way of coming to terms with what are, biologically, the two most important events that happen to them – procreation and death. They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend ' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal?

I put a smile on and pretended it was real.

But mostly there was the ease that came from not having to pretend you had ever recovered. The world wanted you to go on. The world needed you to go on. But the Mumble Jumbles understood that the loss soundtrack was always playing in the background. Sometimes it was on mute, and sometimes it was blasting away on ten, making you deaf.

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

Don't pretend to ask for advice when you're looking for vindication.

But there was so much that one had to pretend not to see the incredible clutter that threatened to overtake the entire flat save for those few narrow paths that the old man moved on; the acrid odor of dirt and neglect that pervaded the place and worked its way into your pores so that you carried it with you after you had left; his odd ways,born of living so long in an absence of mirrors.

In the winter of 1985 I learned from Russian friends a perfect saying to describe the system: "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay.

I-Five had both hands up, the index fingers extended, like a child pretending to point a pair of blasters.

Everyone thinks I'm so strong. They expect me to face autumns and winters like that and bitch-slap them down; make them come to heel. I'm not so strong. I only pretend.

crowded out most other voices on the subject of whatever new crisis was engulfing the Trump administration. These quotes functioned as something like a stage whisper that Trump could pretend he didn't hear. Trump, in fact, was always desperately seeking Bannon's advice,

When I began to write, it was out of fear. I thought I might forget, or pretend to forget, or pretend to pretend, or grow up.

Cl. In short, we ought to be blind throughout this play, and pretend not to see anything in it. Ur. We ought not to see what is not there.