Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. — Jean Baudrillard
Pretending is a very valuable life skill. — Meryl Streep
I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live. — Sayings
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. — Sanford Meisner
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. — Stephen Leacock
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. — Booth Tarkington
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud
We are required to believe in something that doesn’t exist in order to allow it to come into being. — Rick Rubin
Short Make Believe Quotes
Reach into your imagination and see what makes you happy. — Bryant H. McGill
Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life. — Marina and the Diamonds
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. — Foka Gomez
If swans weren't real myths'd make up. — David Mitchell
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it. — Colin Wilson
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis
Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them. — Albert Camus
Anything you can imagine you can make real. — Jules Verne
It’s ok to play imaginary, but it’s not ok to force other people to play imaginary with you. — Robert Breedlove
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. — Gilbert Parker
Top 10 Make Believe Quotes
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. — Richard Dawkins
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. — Unknown Author
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right. — Ratan Tata
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. — Voltaire
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever. — Ferdinand Marcos
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! — Mark Twain
Make Believe Image Quotes
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger. — Heath Ledger
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — Alan Perlis
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
Make Believe Quotes
Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race. — Benito Mussolini
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both. — Angela Davis
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
I believe the reason why he media so hates me and the reason why they make a big deal of it. This is because I'm one of the few Americans, political Americans who think that we shouldn't be led by the nose by Israel. — David Duke
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Architecture
is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
beautiful context for life's drama. — Frank Gehry
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe
I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways. — Chance the Rapper
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one. — William Blake
Make Them Believe Quotes
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. — Anthony De Mello
I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. — Yves Saint Laurent
We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world. — Balaji Srinivasan
Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race. It would be a good thing if all people were treated equally and justly and not be discriminated against because of race or religion or anything that makes them different from others. — Rosa Parks
Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy. — Varg Vikernes
The quicker we can transfer our online connections to offline ones, the more meaningful social media becomes; rather than just leaving them there and chatting to people. So I really believe in the transfer of online to offline, and I think that can make a huge impact. — Jay Shetty
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts - rich thoughts. — Jordan Belfort
Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to. — James Carville
Believe in your dreams and work hard to make them a reality. You have the power to create your own future. — Edward Barber
Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore be true, I began to reflect upon what must be the condition of mankind, trained from infancy to believe in these errors, and to make them the rule of their conduct. — Robert Owen
Make Believe World Quotes
I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world. — Ban Ki-moon
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. — John D. Rockefeller
In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable. — Martin Seligman
To make something special you just have to believe it's special.
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue. — Muhammad Yunus
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. — Christiane Amanpour
Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality. — Robert Anton Wilson
Be brave, fight for what you believe in, and make your dreams your reality.
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. — John Boyd Orr
I believe the world economy will crash when Russia or China moves to a gold-backed currency. They know that when this thing blows, the old law returns: he with most gold makes the rules. — Max Keiser
If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world. — Louis Farrakhan
It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. — Muhammad Ali
Make Me Believe Quotes
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give. — David Livingstone
See, regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me. — Eminem
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best. — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it. — A.J. Ayer
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. — Anais Nin
My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever. — Della Reese
I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place. — Jeff Koons
I love basketball so much, I love playing it. I just never thought I could make it to college, make it to the NBA or stand up here today in front of you guys and be an NBA MVP. It’s just a surreal feeling, and I had so much help, so many people believe in me when I didn’t believe in myself. — Kevin Durant
None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes? — Richelle Mead
Playing Make Believe Quotes
God sees everything at once and knows what you are called to do. Our part is not to play God, but to trust God - to believe that our single, solitary life can make a difference — Zig Ziglar
That's my motto. That's what I stand by. That's what I believe in. Just continue to tell yourself 'why not?' Continue to strive and make the right play to help your team win. — Russell Westbrook
In order to expand the gaming population, it is taken for granted that we need to offer games to satisfy veteran gamers. At the same time, I believe that we need to make a new proposal, so that those who do not play games can say, 'I can do it' and, 'I want to touch it.' — Satoru Iwata
I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting. — Katherine Heigl
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like. — Lee Iacocca
We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all! — Ugo Betti
Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding. — Charlie Munger
For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well. — Anson Mount
There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep. — Rich Mullins
If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone. — Richard Armour
Play Pretend Quotes
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs. — Elle Fanning
Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you. — B. B. King
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
As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football. — Gareth Bale
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. — Gene Tierney
I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well. — Calvin Harris
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. — David Guterson
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. — Lewis Carroll
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. — Roger Waters
When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park. — Gareth Bale
Love Pretend Quotes
Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. — Drake
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. — Bill Cosby
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. — Alan Watts
Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing. As we danced in the night, Remember how the stars stole the night away. — Maurice White
No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail. — Sister Souljah
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. — Stephen Colbert
I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone. — Sara Quin
That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you. — Sarra Manning
The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. — Charlie Sheen
Beloved, there is nothing you can do today to make God love you more, and there’s nothing you can do to make Him love you any less… Beloved, it’s not enough that you know that God loves everyone. You need to know and believe that He loves you, and let that revelation burn in your heart, especially when you fail. — Joseph Prince
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. — Louisa May Alcott
People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone. — Tablo
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. — Cara Delevingne
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. — Isaac Asimov
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. — Muhammad Ali
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. — Jerry West
I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well for twelve years I have been missing the meat in the middle but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms. — Paul Tudor Jones
The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites. — Steven Biko
People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold. — Billy Mills
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country. — Emily Murphy
If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don't hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe in yourself. A guy can feel it if you don't believe in yourself. Set your mind to make yourself do it. — Cus D'Amato
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is — A. R. Rahman
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. — Daniel Kahneman
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. — Jules Feiffer
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. — Clarence Darrow
I want to make people think, and I don't want to come across like I am egotistical or that I want to change people's thoughts. I don't believe that as a comic I can convert anyone's opinion. I think I can maybe make someone look in one direction or the other but I can't make a religious person stop believing in God. — Jim Jefferies
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