Quotes About Pretending

Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity.

For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them.

Many lives are almost scandal-proof. Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

You think this is a mess? New York is a mess! Why should it matter if I spill anything inside? The whole city is a dump! I'm not pretending the inside is any different from the outside anymore!

David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them...

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

The depressed don't write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that, one way or another, their words always go to the right place." "Isn't that how it is?" No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it's only for a very brief time. Otherwise they're useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control.

A man who claims to be happy with his married life is either pretending or having no proper understanding about the nature of woman especially his wife.

A person who feels lonely is only understanding of being alone in life, but the rest are just either pretending or beguiling ownselves of having many supporting people.

A person who is pretending to be good to others gets often most support on own post from netizens and is mostly seen standing on physical ground surrounded by many people.

A person who is pretending to be good to others is often seen standing or hanging around on the ground with many people.

All are alone only but most people are either pretending or not understanding this worldwide known universal fact.

Most people are just pretending to be good to others on the social media,but they are not understanding that the type of post they support or upload only expose them.

The punishment from omnipresent God to the problematic person is only a lot of treacherous people especially pretty women around him often with all pretending themselves to be his close companion.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

What Bernie Sanders is talking about, which is trying to get back to a more perfect democracy, is something that we support, too. We just think that the idea of... wishing the rules were different and then pretending they were is something which, unfortunately, probably would be disastrous from the standpoint of energy and climate.

Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.

He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before Dean Devlin shows up and rains on our private parade, I snort and ask, "Good book?" I forget I'm pretending to be sitting behind my two-thousand-ninety-eight-page Highlights of Modern Chemistry book, so he snorts back. "Better than yours.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

I think it's time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.

I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

The disappointments seemed to escape the family's notice, though. That was another of their quirks: they had a talent for pretending that everything was fine. Or maybe it wasn't a quirk at all. Maybe it was just further proof that the Whitshanks were not remarkable in any way whatsoever.

Which was how she often did after flare-ups—pretending nothing had happened.