#pretend

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me. ↗

— Marat Safin

#celebrity #commercials #could #go #i

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#live #make #pretending #us

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life-lesson #pretend #change

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#friendship #laughter #pretending #dating

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

— Joseph Bruchac

#enemy #possum #pretending-death #shot-twice #twice

The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend. ↗

— Alan Moore

#cities #clothes #houses #life #machines

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. ↗

— Al Stewart

#face #must #pretend #whoever #you

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#heart #pretend #broken

Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black? ↗

— Annabel Pitcher

#dream #friendship #light #pretend #dreams