Guise Quotes

Guise Quote of the day

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise.

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this."