He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds.
The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.
Among immigrants today, it is increasingly fashionable to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multiculturalism. To pretend that this isn't happening isn't optimism; it's sheer fantasy.
There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.
Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep us safe from a nuclear bomb, we must no longer pretend that a large nuclear stockpile will protect us from the most immediate security threats the United States faces.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it's thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
When I retired, I took my money from the financial planner and proceeded to present the front that everything was fine. I had to pretend I still made $5 million a year.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.
I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.