Top 100 Quotes About Appearances
#1. When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.
Honore De Balzac
#2. President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.
Richard Engel
#3. Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne W. Dyer
#4. Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
Bill Bryson
#5. Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance - your very identity - is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are
Thomas Beatie
#6. In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
Mason Cooley
#7. the appearances of happiness or unhappiness of the soul are but reflections.
Swami Vivekananda
#8. As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.
Gaston Leroux
#9. I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
David Selby
#10. Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow
Megan McCafferty
#11. She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and wealth and longed to get married to escape from home.
Annette J. Dunlea
#12. How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?
Pope Francis
#14. You need to wait until you are worthy of having a child of your own.' She pats her hair down, which is rock hard. Her action is pointless, but she's worried about appearances as usual. 'And someone like you who's responsible for killing my babies - your own siblings - is not worthy.
Rebecca Berto
#15. Remember, my dear Govinda, the world of appearances is transitory, the style of our clothes and hair is extremely transitory. Our hair and our bodies are themselves transitory.
Hermann Hesse
#16. All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
Simone Weil
#17. All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.
Immanuel Kant
#18. The great difference between the carnal and the spiritual Christian is that the latter acknowledges God, under whatever low and poor and human appearances He manifests Himself.
Andrew Murray
#19. I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in a gentleman's house. In that inn, I saw him for what he was. And I knew his color there was far more natural than the other.
John Fowles
#20. One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
Robert Motherwell
#21. I don't want a relationship that just looks good on the outside. It's more important that it feels great on the inside.
Sherri Rifkin
#22. the spectacle is an affirmation of appearances and an identification of all human social life with appearances. But a critique that grasps the spectacle's essential character reveals it to be a visible negation of life - a negation that has taken on a visible form.
Guy Debord
#23. Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.
Susan Sontag
#24. The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.
Jules Verne
#25. You want to watch him, Julia," he told me. "He may look harmless enough, but appearances can be deceiving." Geoff grinned. "That's slander, that is. You know I always behave like a perfect gentleman." "Right then, Sir Galahad," Iain said dryly.
Susanna Kearsley
#26. But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.
Jane Austen
#27. If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway - is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?
Patricia Briggs
#28. But to appear happy when I am so miserable - Oh! who can require it?
Jane Austen
#29. I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
Burt Ward
#30. I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for physical appearances.
Selena
#31. The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#32. Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
Epictetus
#33. Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#34. Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances ... " He paused. " ... are often deceiving.
Julie Anne Long
#35. I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.
Jim Gaffigan
#36. Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.
Timothy Keller
#38. A true hero is the one who knows that often as not the dragon is in the damsel and not the other way around.
Midori Snyder
#39. When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.
Teyana Taylor
#40. It made Claire feel so much better knowing that even though she'd almost died, appearances were maintained.
Aleatha Romig
#41. What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances.
Nikki Rowe
#42. Appearances, beauty, value and life have their unique mysteries and essence. I prefer that essence to be breathing with humility, honesty, compassion, respect and a timeless love.
Angelica Hopes
#43. My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#44. After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.
Stephen Richards
#45. We wouldn't want appearances to be questioned.
Aleatha Romig
#46. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
Idries Shah
#47. If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
John Irving
#48. Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can't do with an ugly one? Nothing. It's just a matter of preference.
Octavia E. Butler
#49. In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one's own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them.
Hannah
#50. We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.
Ramana Maharshi
#51. Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#52. I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
Robert Teeter
#53. All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#54. The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
Blaise Pascal
#55. I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.
Stanley Hauerwas
#56. A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#57. A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
Thomas A Kempis
#58. I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
Robert Downey Jr.
#59. It is always correct to recommend that someone seek medical advice, in a truly caring way of course, if you feel that their condition is letting them down at the highest social levels.
Jonathan Rice
#60. Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
Patrick Suskind
#61. Everybody who writes about Blake begins by saying that he was a visionary. It is a vague term. All artists, even the most realistic, start with some kind of vision - that is what leads them to select what they need from the infinite diversity of appearances.
Kenneth Clark
#62. Life is about looking beneath the surface and seeing what lies beyond appearances. That
Connor Franta
#63. Men judge more from appearances than reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Everyone sees your exterior, but few can
discern what you have in your heart.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#64. Not that I will ever believe there is nothing in common between any two people, as some declare is the case. I am sure people make a great mistake in sorting each other into groups, by appearances;
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#65. Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.
Pamela Dean
#66. Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
Danielle De Niese
#67. When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
Hippocrates
#68. Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.
H.W. Brands
#70. 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
#71. The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances and stadium announcements all over the country, fueled by little more than coffee and adrenaline ... so many fans jumped on board with us, and I couldn't be more thankful.
Jason Aldean
#72. I am not what you see.
I am what time and effort and interaction slowly unveil.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#73. Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.
Fiona Apple
#74. What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!
J.K. Rowling
#75. You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.
Richard Bach
#76. My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.
Minnie Pearl
#77. There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.
Amber Benson
#78. No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.
Julie Ann Barnhill
#79. I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
Tony Randall
#80. Primarily, that means learning to recognize thoughts as thoughts - as transient appearances in consciousness - and to no longer be distracted by them, if only for short periods of time.
Sam Harris
#81. He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.
Aporva Kala
#82. To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension. It reminded me of my belief that it was the mission of science to pierce through the layers of everyday reality and penetrate to the truth.
Candace B. Pert
#83. He has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also, what they have not.
this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities to the Atlantis.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story.
Jojo Moyes
#85. All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.
Charles Yu
#86. I'll say this, Arik: the old man's warning proved to be true - things are not always what they seem. She was no young lady -"
"If it's the demon you speak of," interjected Rith, as she stepped back into the ruin, Lyssa following after, "she was not even a toothless old hag.
Dennis L. McKiernan
#87. That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.
Skyla Madi
#88. A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
#89. Hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
Lionel Shriver
#90. Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living - in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.
Vironika Tugaleva
#91. 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
#92. 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.
Karen Duffy
#93. I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
Lydia M. Child
#94. I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake
whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.
H.P. Lovecraft
#95. I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.
Duane Michals
#96. When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.
Alexandra Katehakis
#97. Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.
Keith Donohue
#98. I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.
Gustav Stresemann
#99. Rubbish," Max said. "Anyone can put on clumpy boots and pierce themselves silly. A truly dangerous person would be someone you'd never even look at twice.
Ellen Potter
#100. I resisted the urge to sit and stare at Lend while he slept; when he dreamed, instead of his eyes moving behind his eyelids, his whole glamour shifted appearances like a stop-motion film. It was fascinating and wildly entertaining sometimes - also a bit freaky considering I showed up constantly.
Kiersten White
