Quotes Tagged "pretend"

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

I'll tell you a secret about being happy. Sometimes you just have to pretend at it until it become real.

Kuamini (mbali na imani, ambayo ni nia ya kujua kisichoweza kujulikana) ni kwa ajili ya vitu usivyoweza kuvielezea. Unaamini kwamba siku moja dawa ya UKIMWI au saratani itapatikana mahali fulani, ilhali huwezi kufanya majaribio ya kisayansi kulithibitisha hilo. Unaweza kusubiri hata miaka mia, lakini kama bado dawa haijapatikana, unaweza kusubiri hata miaka mingine mia. Kuamini ni kujifanya kujua (na mara nyingi kujifanya kujua ni uongo) na kuamini hakuhitaji maarifa. Kujua kunahitaji maarifa na ni kuamini unakoweza kukuthibitisha. Ukiniuliza kama simu yangu ipo mfukoni nitakwambia ndiyo ipo, kwa sababu nitaingiza mkono mfukoni na kuitoa na kuiona. Siamini kama ipo mfukoni, najua.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

A relationship is very likely to initially make us pretend we are someone we are not; a friendship, to eventually make us pretend we are still someone we used to be.

I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

Authors. We write to pretend we're not crazy for talking to ourselves.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural industries.