#tending

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#approach #comedy #funny #i #i always

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#capable #carry #feelings #following #free

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#could #first #how #judge #know

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#good mood #mood #pretending #sometimes #thing

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#funny #intending #laugh #make #somebody

Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#crisis #dent #early #earning #economic

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. ↗

— David Mamet

#conservative #gay #get #greater #liberal

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#believed #closer #get #i #pretending