In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
~By John Berger ~
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
~By George Cuvier ~
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
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.
~By Robert Teeter ~
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
~By William Booth ~
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
~By Andrew Vachss ~
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
~By Boy George ~
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
~By Michael Korda ~
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
~By Jude Law ~
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
~By Ivor Novello ~
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
~By Charles Churchill ~
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
~By John Ruskin ~
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.
~By Diane Kruger ~
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
~By Peter Benenson ~
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
~By Ovid ~
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
~By Bill Mumy ~
Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
~By Peter Lynch ~
Appearances are often deceiving.
~By Aesop ~
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
~By George Whitefield ~
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
~By Alexander Fleming ~
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
~By Charles Lamb ~
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
~By Sarah Bernhardt ~
The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.
~By Denise Crosby ~
Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical.
~By Kenzo Tange ~
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
~By Leland Stanford ~
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
~By Ralph Kiner ~
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
~By Saint Augustine ~
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
~By Aristotle ~
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
~By Jean Henri Fabre ~
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
~By Robert Wilson Lynd ~
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
~By Stephane Mallarme ~
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
~By Angela Carter ~
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
~By Aristotle ~
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
~By Anaxagoras ~
Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.
~By William Dampier ~
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
~By Shelley Berman ~
After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
~By Shirley Manson ~
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
~By Phaedrus ~
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
~By David Low ~
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
~By Bo Jackson ~
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
~By George Catlin ~
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
~By James G. Frazer ~
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
~By Alice Walker ~
Trust not to much to appearances.
~By Virgil ~
A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.
~By Mickey Gilley ~
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.
~By Burt Ward ~
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
~By Helen Reddy ~
I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.
~By Mike Weir ~
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line.
~By George Mercer Dawson ~
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
~By Victor Borge ~
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
~By Garry shandling ~
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
~By David Selby ~
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.
~By Alanna Ubach ~
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
~By Jane Austen ~
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
~By Kate Adie ~
I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.
~By Donna Douglas ~
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
~By Lara St. John ~
As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong.
~By Kevin Thomas ~
One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
~By Garrett Hardin ~
We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
~By Usher Raymond ~
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Appearance rules the world.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
~By Duane Michals ~
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
~By Sid Vicious ~
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
~By Enya ~
One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.
~By Tonya Harding ~
We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.
~By Katherine Harris ~
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
~By Jean Rostand ~
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
~By Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ~
The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.
~By Julie London ~
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
~By Douglas Bader ~
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
~By King Hussein I ~
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