Best 583 quotes in «appearance quotes» category

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

God has saved you to make your appearance in the last days.

God loveth the clean.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance. I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.

Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one's character.

I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena.

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling

I do my best to answer all questions that they might have as well as make appearances at camps and what not.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.