Best 583 quotes in «appearance quotes» category

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

There is no trusting appearances.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

The whole universe is our home and all residing in it belong to our family... instead of trying to see God in a particular appearance, it is better to see him in everything.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

Things are seldom what they seem.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

Trust not too much to appearances

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

We should not be frightened by appearances.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance?" "His posture," Hannah muttered. "What about it?" "He slouches." "He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over.