#pretend

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. ↗

— David Mamet

#conservative #gay #get #greater #liberal

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#brave #i #i can #pretend #whole

I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style. ↗

— Tiffeny Milbrett

#going #i #out #playing #pretend

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#best #broadcasting #down #fun #had

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#anything #best #hand #hide #like

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. ↗

— Moliere

#piety #pretenders #well

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing! ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#character #doing #few #getting #i

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#day #death #denial #die #enough

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#conflicts #create #economic #harmonious #lasting