Pretend Quotes
On the gap between appearances and what's real underneath.
Several lines draw a line between honest limitation and outright pretending, including the idea that institutions do better admitting what they aren't. Read related thoughts in our Know quotes.
We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.
I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.
Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
To pretend that there is no such thing as the Muslim world is specious, self-deluding, and - frankly - plain silly.
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
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