Appearance Quotes

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

There is no trusting appearances.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.

After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

I go back to Robert Reich and his appearance on [George] Stephanopoulos' show. The Democrat Party has not been in this bad a shape since the 1920s.

America is a country obsessed with appearance. It's a country obsessed with looks.

The Democrats are dropping the F-bomb at practically every appearance now, because they think that's how they connect to the Millennials. They're losing their minds.

There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

It's not the outer appearance that matters, it's what's inside.

Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.

There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis in the United States will make its appearance in the same way.

Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.

People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

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

For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.

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

Best movie ever?! Come on, my appearance on Arrested Development had more dynamics, realism and feel to it than the whole trilogy combined.

I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don’t think it had anything to do with being mixed-race. In my opinion, mixed-race people are the most beautiful.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

Nothing is more deceitful, " said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.

Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.