#pretend

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#commenced #dread #enthusiast #even #infinitely

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. ↗

— Michael Aston

#about #innocents #mass #pretend #slaughter

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#fear #more #often #pretend #really

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#another #care #cruelest #lest things #more

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#beautiful people #difficult #hard #how #like

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dumb #old #old age #only #pretend

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#arrogant #beings #form #galaxy #human

I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#clothes #daughter #day #dress #eldest

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#elements #i #just #music #pretend

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending