"I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Pretending Quotes

“The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.”
“You saw in your interview with Speaker [Paul] Ryan, though, an echo of what the White House and the president [Donald Trump] have started to say, which is, well, we`re not going to get a check from Mexico to pay for the wall on the front end. We`re going to find some way to get the money back, but initially will be paid for by the U.S.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing”
“You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.”

Source : "Czech warns Europe of 'dream world' woes". www.washingtontimes.com. November 24, 2003.
“I have never gotten into the label thing.”
“Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.”

Source : "The Crimson Petal and the White". Book by Michel Faber, 2002.
“Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous, Entwined with delightful mystery, They will breathe in her springlike Extraordinary beauty. But in a whirlwind of sound and fire, From her shing head they will flutter And fallÂ—and before her They will die, faintly fragrant still. And, impelled by faithful longing, My obedient gaze will feast upon themÂ— With a reverent hand, Love will gather their rotting remains.”
“Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.”

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