Pretender Quotes

• I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Today Is The Day, Way

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• Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Selfish, Heart, Sentimental

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• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Pride, Temptation, Arguing

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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• The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Eye, Veils, Conceit

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• The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

  Edmund Burke

  Leadership, Real, Differences

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• You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.

  Sefi Atta

  Passion, Writing, Overwhelming Desire

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

  Sheila Walsh

  Bridges, People, Deep Thought

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• If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!

  Shel Silverstein

  Hope, Liars, Fire

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• Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

  Jackson Browne

  Art, Strong, Prayer

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

  Philip Guedalla

  Simple, Reign, Three

  Supers and Supermen "Some Critics" (1920)

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• There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

  Moliere

  Courage, Literature, Wells

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• Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you'll never get anywhere. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.

  Nick Hornby

  Mean, Weather, Decision

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• Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

  Jackson Browne

  Dream, Evening, Ends

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.

  Anuj

  Jobs, Real, Numbers

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• There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kings, Guy, Tough

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• For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

  Solomon

  Bible, Fake People, Heart

  "Book of Proverbs". 23:7,

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• I have worked in the homes of many successful people and have seen firsthand that everyone fails in life, but failure can be a gift if you don't give up and are willing to learn, improve, and grow because of it.  You see, failure often serves as a defining moment, a crossroads on the journey of your life.  It gives you a test designed to measure your courage, perseverance, commitment, and a dedication.  Are you a pretender who gives up after a little adversity or a contender who keeps getting up after getting knocked down?

  Jon Gordon

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Adversity

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.76, John Wiley & Sons

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• Existence always cares about you. If you are authentic, if your search is true and you are not a pretender, time will help you, will cooperate with you. Time from existence`s side, and patience on your side.

  Rajneesh

  Your Side, Care, Sides

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• never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

  Nizar Qabbani

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.

  Yukio Mishima

  Revenge, Stupid, Fate

  "Confessions of a Mask". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1949.

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• The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Poetry, Feels

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• Trump walked into a media setting for which he was far better suited than the other contenders because he actually knows how to do reality TV and made them all look like pretenders. And I would argue that our news media has only gotten worse since Trump got in office. Trump is media crack. The ratings have never been higher. The reason CNN would run an hour of an empty podium waiting for him to show up during the campaign is because they were terrified if they turned away from Trump their rating would go down.

  Naomi Klein

  Running, Reality, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Hypocrite, Men

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• Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

  Plato

  Men, Argument

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I've always been a Pretenders fan... I'm very excited about this.

  Stevie Nicks

  Excited

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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