He Pretended That He Did Quotes

#1. I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.

Walter Cronkite

#2. But that couldn't be... you don't.... That's wrong," she said lamely.

"You mean morally?" Donal looked utterly struck by the notion. "Morally wrong! Well!" He pretended to ponder and then said earnestly, "I should hope so! Honestly, Jenny-girl, moral sex! Where's the point in that?

Lilia Ford

#3. Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

Georg Ebers

#4. The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

George R R Martin

#5. Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater.

Henry James

#6. The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

William James

#7. I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. We both pretended to attach no significance to what had happened, and so revealed just how much significance there was.

S.J. Watson

#9. We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.
Piper

T. Greenwood

#10. When I was pink and clean I crawled into bed and pretended I was at Disney World.

Janet Evanovich

#11. You read my Cosmo?"
"I read all of your magazines. I took all the love quizzes and pretended I was you answering the questions."
"How did I do?"
"You cheated," I said.

Michael Chabon

#12. There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.

Tracey Ullman

#13. It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.

Elizabeth Goudge

#14. I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.

Jenny Mollen

#15. In those minutes, he pretended that they were his parents, and he was home for the weekend from law school to visit them, and this was his room, and the next day he would get up and do whatever it was that grown children did with their parents.

Hanya Yanagihara

#16. He really didn't care, but he tried to pretend he did.

Jason Medina

#17. They were signed Love, Martha, but Lieutenant Cross understood that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended it meant. At

Tim O'Brien

#18. It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

Robert Kurson

#19. [T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.

Charles Dickens

#20. I pretended like all the oranges rolling everywhere were her happy memories and they were looking for a new person to stick to so they didn't get wasted.

Stephen Kelman

#21. Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

Oliver Cromwell

#22. On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.

Joyce Carol Oates

#23. The Internet is great for things, like finding the answers to things you pretended to know or stalking people.

Shaun Sipos

#24. And while she pretended he was someone else, he would pretend she had no reason to imagine he was anyone other than who he was.

Lorraine Heath

#25. The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brian Grazer

#26. Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

Andy Dick

#28. The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Adam Sedgwick

#29. Daughter of Bast, she replied, with a little bow. Cats liked to be reminded that they had once been worshiped. They pretended that they didn't, that they were above flattery, but of course, that only meant that they were all the more susceptible to it.

Anonymous

#30. I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

Martine McCutcheon

#31. Instead of becoming depressed that I was in the locked ward of a mental hospital, I pretended I was playing a role in a movie, possibly on my way to an Emmy.

Augusten Burroughs

#32. We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

Pat Conroy

#33. She pretended he knew some of her thoughts, only some of them, the ones she would like to show him.

Marilynne Robinson

#34. The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

I. F. Stone

#35. I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom ... " & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

David Mitchell

#36. I pretended my eyeballs had weights on them to stop myself from rolling them to the back of my head.

Donna Augustine

#37. When was the last time you lost an argument?"
He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me.

Nalini Singh

#38. I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#39. You pretended to hate him because you were a coward. But you eventually loved him, and he is a part of you now, because you have since grown brave.

N.K. Jemisin

#40. A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.

John Gabriel Stedman