Quotes About Pretended

Carlotta hovered over us as we devoured her meatballs, running her floury fingers over the backs of our chairs, then gently touching our heads, the napes of our necks. We pretended not to notice, ashamed in front of one another and ourselves to show that we drank in her nurturance as eagerly as her meat sauce.

quickly pretended disappointment. We hailed a taxi and squeezed in with all our luggage. Aunt Reine

There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend.

There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

I disdained to argue, and entrenched my curiosity behind a rampart of pretended indifference.

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

Quarter were a regular retail mafia; the owner and Dahveed probably took each other's UPS deliveries. But it was a good place to regroup. She pretended

This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.

Oh, he's on top of it. It was volunteer only, but he pretended not to notice me waving my hand in the air," says Haymitch. "See? He's already demonstrated good judgment.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

Sex offenders were the least-respected convicts in any prison society; if a violator of Article 130 could have pretended that he was an ax murderer instead, or an arsonist, or a man who had filled a ditch with fourteen poisoned wives, he'd have preferred that to entering the prison as a sex offender.

Alfred, will you help us?" Before the boy could answer, he heard the sound of bootsteps approaching. STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! "Guards!" he hissed. "Go! Go! Go!" implored Mother, so he jumped down from the bucket, and leaped on to a pile of hay. THUD! There he pretended to be asleep. Alfred even did his

This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

Local nitwits pretended to be well-informed.

I pretended to be dead in front of a pig once, because I heard that they snuffle you, they try and wake you up, to check if you really are dead. And if you are dead, they eat you, but they like having a little prod first.

To be mentioned alongside guys like Marino and Elway, guys who were my heroes growing up, that's heady stuff.... These were the guys I pretended to be at recess.

Christmas was largely ignored in my heaven. Some people dressed all in white and pretended they were snowflakes, but other than that, nothing.

The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the pretended, and Lucy's first aim was to defeat herself.

Frederick said we don't have choices, don't own our lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices, Werner who watched Frederick dump the pail of water at his feet—I will not— Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down. Werner who watched Volkheimer wade into house after house, the same ravening nightmare recurring over and over and over.

Frederick said we don't have choices, don't own our lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices, Werner who watched Frederick dump the pail of water at his feet-I will not- Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down.

A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder.