First Appearances Quotes

#1. But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good ... and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.

Andrzej Sapkowski

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

Camille Paglia

#3. He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

Liza Minnelli

#4. Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

David Hume

#5. Remember, your highest goal is learning, and only in action does true, experiential learning occur. This is what you climb for.

Arno Ilgner

#6. The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Now for the first time I learned to know men and I learned to distinguish between empty appearances or brutal manners and the real inner nature of the people who outwardly appeared thus.

Adolf Hitler

#8. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.

Donna Tartt

#10. Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

Sebastian Janikowski

#11. They laughed together then until the woman's features turned somber. "Thank you for not lying about what you thought of my appearance. You might have a face to turn my hair white, but your honesty is handsome.

Grace Draven

#12. Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

Pat Conroy

#13. Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.

Joseph Addison

#14. When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

Feist

#15. Christ is the Morning Star,
who, when the night of this world is past,
gives to his saints the promise of the light of life,
and opens everlasting day.

Venerable Bede

#16. No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

Peter S. Beagle

#17. The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.

Xenophon

#19. Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

Hannibal Buress

#20. In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#21. Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. Appearances are nothing ... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

Georges Bernanos

#23. And then, instead of lamenting past calamities we might all cheerfully set to work to remedy them; and the greater the difficulties, the harder our present privations, the greater should be our cheerfulness to endure the latter, and our vigour to contend against the former.

Emily Bronte

#24. For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

Francis Ponge

#25. Wonder ... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

Adam Smith

#26. The eyes of a woman in the face of a ten-year-old girl.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#27. My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

Liam Perrin

#28. My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

Minnie Pearl

#29. Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

Sharon Bolton

#30. To own beauty is the first lie of it.

Chris Campanioni