Quotes About Faking

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

Why would you want it, if it's not the truth?" he asked. "What for?" "Now you see, that's the cruelty of conscientious people. You wouldn't understand it—would you?—if I answered that real devotion consists of being willing to lie, cheat and fake in order to make another person happy—to create for him the reality he wants, if he doesn't like the one that exists." "No

The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.

What do you do to avoid conflict, necessary though it may be? What are you inclined to lie about, assuming that the truth might be intolerable? What do you fake?

don't know how to be any other way." Boston smiled unexpectedly. "None of us do. That's the point of life. Haven't you figured that out yet? All of this—" She motioned to her kitchen. "It's a facade to keep the demons at bay. Some of us are better at faking it than others, but we all have our issues.

Una vez vi en una serie de televisión que la sorpresa es la emoción más difícil de fingir. Los mentirosos la exageran mucho, la hacen demasiado larga, cuando el efecto físico de algo que nos sorprende dura algo menos de un segundo. Ojos

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

But . . . you still know the truth. You know you're faking it." "Yes, but eventually you realize something: the other side is, too. At least as often as not. Learn what you can; do what you can; get others to do for you what you can't. And fake it for all you're worth in the meantime." He

Since we're playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. "Do you have to sneeze?" he asked. "Be quiet. I'm pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said." "Try not to strain anything." "Oh, I won't. I'm very good at faking it." That shut him up.

I've got to think that that was unethical, Joshua said. Josh, faking demonic possession is like a mustard seed. How is it like a mustard seed? You don't know, do you? Doesn't seem at all like a mustard seed, does it? Now you see how we all feel when you liken things unto a mustard seed? Huh?

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

What is wrong with a counterfeit is not what it is like, but how it was made. This points to a similar and fundamental aspect of the essential nature of bullshit: although it is produced without concern with the truth, it need not be false. The bullshitter is faking things. But this does not mean that he necessarily gets them wrong.

Hee hee hee!" Nero said. "You children are like three clowns!" "Ho ho ho!" Count Olaf said. "Ha ha ha!" Violet said, who was beginning to feel queasy from faking all this laughter.

That might work, I said. I'm good at faking it. This led to a couple moments of uncomfortable silence from both of us. You didn't mean... ? Morelli asked. No. Of course not. Never? Maybe once. His eyes narrowed. Once? It's all that comes to mind. It was the time we were late for your Uncle Spud's birthday party. I remember that. That was great. You're telling me you faked it? We were late! I couldn't concentrate. It seemed like the best way to go.

She often experienced an uneasy sense that she was somehow faking a life for him, giving him a pretend childhood.

Now, for one day every month, she had to fake everything: her basic humanity, her love for her children, her love for Ed. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today!

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

escribir siempre sería una renuncia. Un exilio. Una manera de fingir que uno sale al encuentro del otro cuando en realidad rumia, digiere, regurgita, mastica, relame, traga, se nutre, defeca sus propias e intransferibles palabras...

Content in a way he'd rarely been before Mercy, he simply stroked her until she purred. It delighted him as it always did. "I made you purr." A lazy yawn. "I'm faking it.

In a society that is becoming desensitized, robotic and in some cases debilitatingly prescriptive. Women are faking orgasms more -- maybe to just get it all over with.