#pretended

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

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange. ↗

— Maureen McCormick

#became #could #her #i #imperfect

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#hit #home #i #living #me

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#handle #i #kid #microphone #pretended

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show. ↗

— Sherman Hemsley

#down #elementary #elementary school #everyone #fell

There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is. ↗

— Christian Bale

#been #clearly #disrespectful #even #i

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#dishonest #disorder #even #exist #ignoring

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#attributes #created #days #estimate #his

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ↗

— George Washington

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