P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen”
“Pretend?" "Never." "None of it? "Darling, I have never had to pretend to want you.”
“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
“Pretend that I ain't in fact/Coming off like a thin hat/Where strong wind at”
“Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.”
“Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.”
Source: The Core of the Sun
“Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.”
“Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.”
Source: Steve Jobs
“Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.”
“Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.”
Source: God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
“Pretend to be happy,’ I say quietly to Hanna. ‘I’ve forgotten how to.’ ‘As though it’s for the school photo”
Source: The Discomfort of Evening
“Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.”
Source: Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel
“Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.”
“Pretend to be weak before the enemy and he will become conceited, leaving him vulberable to your attack.”
“Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant.”
“Pretend was a big part of my childhood.”
“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.”
Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays
“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.”
Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays
“Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.”
“Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.”
“Pretend you're mine," he urged, his arms closing around her. "Just for a minute. Pretend there's never been anyone but me, that I'm the one you're promised to. Do it for me....I'll never ask again.”
Source: Love, Come to Me
“Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.”
“Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.”
Source: The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers
“Pretenderá em vão lutar contra a tua vontade, e nunca te poderá arrancar da alma a sublime afeição, que deste a outrem. Louco! A mulher só ama uma vez. No seu coração imprimiu Deus um sentir tão puro e tão verdadeiro, que o homem não pode duvidar dos seus afetos.
E a mulher cumpre na terra sua missão de amor e de paz; e depois de a ter cumprido volta ao céu; porque ela passou no mundo à semelhança de um anjo consolador.
Esta é a mulher.
Mas aquela, cujas formas eram tão sedutoras, tão belas, aquela, cujas aparências mágicas e arrebatadoras escondiam um coração árido de afeições puras, e desinteressadas... Oh! Essa não compreendeu para que veio habitar entre os homens; porque a cobiça hedionda envenenou-lhe os nobres sentimentos do coração.
O brilho do ouro deslumbrou-a, e ela vendeu seu amor ao primeiro que lho ofereceu. Maldição!... Infâmia sobre a mulher que não compreendeu a sua honrosa
missão, e trocou por outro os sublimes afetos da sua alma.”
Source: Úrsula
“Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“Pretending is a very valuable life skill.”
“Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.”
“Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.”
Source: Mind Games
“Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.”
“Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.”
“Pretending is the outcome of desperately wanting to achieve something, but forfeiting it to the whimsy of imagination because we lack the faith to believe that we could achieve it. And if we actually started to pretend that we could achieve it, in time maybe we wouldn’t have to pretend anymore.”
“Pretending is useless when you know the deep truth behind your pretensions.”
“Pretending like you can take on the world on your own isn't brave, it's stupid.”
Source: Velvet
“Pretending not to be hurt is a brave thing to do... But you know what? Crying is braver. Why? Coz not everyone can accept the fact that... Not all things are meant for you.”
“Pretending not to be hurt isn't healing. If you want to HEAL from it, you have to DEAL with it.”
“Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.”
Source: All In
“Pretending that race isn't a thing anymore is actually another way of being racist.”
Source: All You Have to Do
“Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.”
Source: God Is Not One
“Pretending that we are identical, rather than ensuring that we are equal under the law, is a fool's game.”
Source: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
“Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.”
“Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.”
Source: Hidden Riches
“Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.”
“Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.”
“Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.”
“Pretending to be passionate when we are truly depressed doesn’t help. Numbing our feelings only makes things worse. Depression taught me to experience all of my feelings and not push them aside.”
Source: The Emotional Gift: Memoir of a Highly Sensitive Person Who Overcame Depression
“Pretending to be someone else is my favorite part of any job. It’s like dressing up for Halloween, playing the part of someone evil, in a disguise used to trick the wicked into believing they’re in for a treat. Yet none of them know my monster is worse than theirs. That my monster has been forged in fire and hate, that it will always be more terrifying.”
Source: Together We Lie