Pretending Quotes - Page 3

• Lo que me he dado cuenta desde entonces es que si la gente espera que seas valiente, a veces finges que lo eres, incluso cuando estás asustado hasta los huesos.

  Sharon Creech

  Courage, Fear, People

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

  Caryl Churchill

  Thinking, Alive, Realising

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• Me he encontrado con unos cuantos "creacionistas" y, como por lo general eran personas agradables e inteligentes, no he podido decidir si estaban realmente locos o sólo fingían estarlo. Si yo fuera una persona religiosa, consideraría el creacionismo nada menos que una blasfemia. ¿Se imaginan sus partidarios que Dios es un embustero cósmico que ha creado todo el vasto registro fósil con el único propósito de engañar a la humanidad?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Nice, Intelligent

  "Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke for journal "Science" (pp. 1532-1533), June 5, 1998.

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• Me meto desnudo en la lluvia de la verdad, con todo el corazón, con toda la sangre en la boca, totalmente egoísta, sin pretender disfrutar ni entender nada.

  Selima Hill

  Truth, Selfish, Naked

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• It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.

  Allen West

  Nice, Upset, Would Be

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• I've - that I regret. That was stupid and ignorant on my part. I went to a party as a guest of a friend of mine, a lawyer. And he had a client who I didn't know, except - maybe I'm pretending I didn't know, but he was a big investor in The New Yorker. And as I found out later in a book about The New Yorker, this guy was very unhappy about [Bill] Shawn.He thought Shawn was spending out - spending too much money on writers.

  Nat Hentoff

  Regret, Stupid, Party

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

  Ian Astbury

  Pagado

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• La confianza es muy importante, incluso fingir confianza. Si cometes un error pero no dejas que tu rival vea lo que estás pensando, puede que lo pase por alto.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Error, Pensamiento, Importante

  "Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting'". SPIEGEL Interview with Ansbert Kneip,Maik Großekathöfer, en.chessbase.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

  Vernon Howard

  People, Helping, Morality

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• I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

  Albert Finney

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Paul Fischer, "Dark Horizons", December 2, 2003.

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• I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Hardship, Paid

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

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• Las buenas personas protegen a la gente que quieren aunque eso signifique fingir que todo va bien.

  Ron McLarty

  Mean, People, Protect

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• A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Snob, Fashionable

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• In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

  Matt Redman

  Dios, Cristiano, Religioso

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• What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

  Doris Lessing

  Love, Inspirational, Needs

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Made

  "Q&A: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto On <cite>mario</cite>, <cite>zelda</cite>, Project Natal And More". Interview With Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. June 12, 2009.

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• David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them.

  John Connolly

  Mother, Dog, Cat

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• Necesitamos un aliado de Mydogg o de Gentian que pretenda estar entre los aliados más leales del rey', dijo Brigan. 'No debería ser tan difícil, la verdad. Si lanzara una flecha por la ventana probablemente daría en el blanco.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Arrows, Allies

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.135, Penguin

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• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters, Turns, Mortals

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?

  Nora Ephron

  Dream, Men, Years

  "After the Love Is Gone" by Nora Ephron, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2005.

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• Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm.

  Darynda Jones

  Coffee, Drink

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.161, Macmillan

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• Amo a los enemigos, aunque no a la manera cristiana. Me divierten, excitan mi sangre. Estar siempre en guardia, captar cada mirada, el significado de cada palabra, adivinar sus intenciones, frustrar sus complots, fingir que te engañan y, de repente, con un empujón, derribar todo el enorme y arduamente construido edificio de sus astucias y ardides: eso es lo que yo llamo vida.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Christian, Blood, Enemy

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• I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!

  Veronica Roth

  Cities, Thrones, Sitting

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.11, HarperCollins

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• Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Jace, Happenings

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiveness, Way, Treated

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