The Great Pretender Quotes

#1. Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

Ron Pickering

#2. I tried to pretend that kiss meant nothing. I tried to pretend she didn't have permanent residence in my dreams. I tried to pretend I wasn't using her to feel wanted, and I tried to pretend I wasn't dying to see her again - I became the great pretender.

Tali Alexander

#3. A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Dario Fo

#4. A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.

Aria Cunningham

#5. From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

Stanley Hauerwas

#6. But I am a great pretender, sometimes so good at it that I convince myself that what I pretend is what is truly real.

Kameron Hurley

#7. The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

Edmund Burke

#8. Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking.

Helen Macdonald

#10. Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

Ehud Barak

#11. Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower