Feign Quotes
On pretending not to know, and why it rarely holds up.
Several of these quotes challenge the idea of feigning innocence or ignorance, particularly around policy consequences that come back around. Others take a lighter angle, noting how adults sometimes feign disinterest in children's curiosity about science.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
Abandon Quotes
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never...
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent...
Cannot Quotes
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
