#pretend

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #assert #beliefs #body #consciousness

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#human world #i #i can #laptop #part

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me. ↗

— Adam Levine

#everyone #go #i #loves #me

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#doing #fabulous #know #looks #pretends

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#good mood #mood #pretending #sometimes #thing

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

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#else #feel #felt #i #includes

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#disappointed #foolish #fully #leave #passion

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

— Ida Lupino

#cooperation #did #got #i #know