“You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.”
C.S. Lewis
“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
Walter Lippmann
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
Jacques Derrida
“When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers.”
Joan Benoit Samuelson
“[Pretending is indeed the Washington game. Pretend independence, for instance. Recall House Speaker Sam Rayburn's attributed standard greeting to new Democrat members of Congress, per:] Remember, to get along, go along. ... There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
Will Rogers
“When you hide something from someone and you hide it where that one you are hiding it from is hiding …you not hiding at all.”
Kagabo Buranga Jacques
