Pretending Quotes Page 2

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can't even describe that feeling. That's why I like the best - the best cars, the best food, the best watches.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless;

but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are.

We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.

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

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

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.

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it.

You either like it or you don't.

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out.

I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

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.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes.

He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.

The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.