Pretending Quotes - Page 25

• Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

  Bo Lozoff

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.128, Penguin

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• There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

  Cassandra Clare

  Romantic, Love You, Forbidden Love

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

  LeCrae

  Together, Weakness, Confessing

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Rights, Expression

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Soldier, Enemy, Shots

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.81, Penguin

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• We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

  Angela Thomas

  Pain, Believe, Mean

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• There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Silly, Light

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• Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Healing, Weight Loss

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Reality, People, My Own

  "It's all gone widescreen". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.

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• What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?

  Rumi

  Beloved, Stills

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• I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

  James Taylor

  Writing Songs, Songwriting, Singer-songwriters

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Regret, Compassion

  "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". Book by Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan, 1992.

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• Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

  Meryl Streep

  Play, Skills, Acting

  Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

  William Joyce

  Space, Conquer, Barriers

  "Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King".

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• I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Ideas, Roots

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• some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fake People, Real, Opera

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

  Guy Pearce

  Growing Up, Kids, Adults

  "This much I know: Guy Pearce" by Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2012.

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• I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

  Katherine Heigl

  Children, Believe, Play

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• Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  "New Hopes for a Changing World". Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become Obsolete, p. 158. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1951.

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• I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

  Ani DiFranco

  Sound, Looks, Wonder

  Song: Work Your Way Out, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Writing, Who I Am

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• We've got social media now where we can even create an identity for ourselves and show the world an inauthentic highlight reel version of who we are. But I'm drawn to real, not a highlight reel. The world doesn't need to see another plastic Christian pretending they've got it all together.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Real, Together

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

  Dan Savage

  Dream, Husband, Divorce

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• The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

  George Santayana

  World, Moments, Contradiction

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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