#pretending

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#crime #despite #deter #find #fine

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#always #being #character #coat #different

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such. ↗

— Roy Moore

#gives #god #government #history #indeed

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#live #make #pretending #us

Being is like pretending. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#like #pretending

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. ↗

— David Letterman

#because #behavior #believe #courage #courageous

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#kitty-foyle #pretending #life

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#democratic party #desert #freedoms #guise #never

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues. ↗

— Neil Young

#blue #blues #i #now #pretending

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#aware #charm #enhancing #gentle #modesty