Pretending Quotes - Page 5

And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're free. The insanity is that we live inside of the false stories that we tell each other.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.