Quotes About Pretending

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

I guessed that by pretending to be the leader I could make a few things go my way, at least for a little while, until they figured out I was faking it.

Instead of the White House, why not take our visiting space alien to ComicCon. We'd have legitimate concerns that nobody would notice an actual alien camouflaged among those pretending to be one. The upside? Our alien visitor phones home and instead reports—"They're just like us!

And though later he came pretending friendship, the alliance with man would ever be but fragile, for the fear he'd struck into their hearts was too deep to be dislodged.

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

It's always the same with these bogus equivalences: They start by pretending loftily to find no difference between aggressor and victim, and they end up by saying that it's the victim of violence who is really inciting it.

racialism is something totally different. It is the invention not of conquered nations but of conquering nations. It is a way of pushing exploitation beyond the point that is normally possible, by pretending that the exploited are not human beings.

Wyatt was Cody's big brother. He was a teenager who pretended that Cody drove him crazy. Wyatt was so good at pretending, many people were fooled. But not Cody.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

And I wondered if these people too, who seemed able to move as they wished about the yard, were in truth constrained to behave as they did and were only pretending to be free, as we ourselves had done when we came in procession through the town.

Bitterness would do you good. All that smiling and pretending of yours would give me hives.

Ha! Bitterness would do you good. All that smiling and pretending of yours would give me hives.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.

Many a choice is made this way: By pretending it makes itself.

Many a choice is made in this way: by pretending it makes itself. And many a fate is decided by those who cannot decide.

The game is pretending. It's going through the motions of life. But it's not living. The game is for people who want rules because they're afraid to believe anything everyone else doesn't already believe. They're all scared to leave the street where they live and do something with their lives. the game is for people who want to be told what to do. Okay. Good for them, if that's what they want.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

you no longer expect to stop pretending someday. It has become simply a part of who you are,

Being full of mischief, they love to listen; they gladly obey, for they like to betray you, pretending to be sent from Heaven, and lisping like angels, while they lie.

I realized that I was an amateur. I had spent my life pretending to be something I wasn't.

I had an awkward moment when I got a phone call from the person pretending to be Winnie Mandela. 'Winnie' sounded about 12 years old, unfortunately - she'd probably been pushed to the telephone because she was the only one who spoke English.