Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
~By Martha Beck ~
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 ~
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
~By Pierre Loti ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
~By Naomi Wolf ~
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
~By Alice Walker ~
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
~By Albert Einstein ~
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
~By Perry Como ~
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
~By Phaedrus ~
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 ~
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
~By Elisabeth Rohm ~
Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
~By Randy West ~
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
~By Thomas Paine ~
The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.
~By Robert Fortune ~
I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
~By Rafer Johnson ~
There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
~By Victor Borge ~
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
~By Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ~
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
~By David Low ~
She was making great money at personal appearances.
~By David Gest ~
I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
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 ~
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
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 ~
This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
~By Ryan White ~
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
~By Andrew Vachss ~
On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.
~By Marc Maron ~
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 ~
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.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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.
~By Karen Duffy ~
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 ~
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
~By Mason Cooley ~
My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
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 ~
One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.
~By James Kirkwood ~
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 ~
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
~By Tycho Brahe ~
I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.
~By Patti LuPone ~
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
~By George Orwell ~
Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.
~By Mary McGrory ~
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 ~
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 ~
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
~By Fritz Todt ~
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
~By Penelope Lively ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
~By Ralph Kiner ~
My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
~By Emma Thompson ~
My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.
~By Alanna Ubach ~
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 ~
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
~By Kate Millett ~
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 ~
The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching "Ben Hur" at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
~By Duane Michals ~
My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
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 ~
My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
~By Leland Stanford ~
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
~By Don Herold ~
They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
~By Aristotle ~
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
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 ~
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.
~By Roger Daltrey ~
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.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
~By Enya ~
Trust not to much to appearances.
~By Virgil ~
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
~By Jane Austen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
~By Franz Kafka ~
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
~By Frank Langella ~
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 ~
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
~By Helen Reddy ~
I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.
~By Clayton Moore ~
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
~By Vera Wang ~
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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