Appearance Quotes - Page 40

• Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

  Jodi Kantor

  Husband, Wife, Candidates

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• When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.

  Teyana

  Google, Stuff

  "Buzzworthy Exclusive: Teyana Taylor for President!". Buzzworthy interview, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2008.

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• 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.

  Julie London

  People, Choices, President

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• As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Passion, Deceit

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Believe, Eye

  Wesley L. Duewel (1990). “Mighty Prevailing Prayer”, p.101, Zondervan

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• The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

  Bodhidharma

  Attachment, Essence, Practice

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.47, Macmillan

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• If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

  Bodhidharma

  Truth, Break Through, Understanding

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Man is an appearance, God is a reality.

  Kedar Joshi

  Reality, Men, Universe

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• The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Fall, Long, Mind

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• Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Taken, Islamic, Would Be

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• We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Reality, Justice, Mind

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• While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Strength, Different, Genius

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.167

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• As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Sick, Soul

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• None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Ignorance, Shadow

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• There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Thinking, Life And Death

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• Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Ego, Mind

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• Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

  Plato

  Plato, Science, Movement

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• Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.

  LIZ

  Crush, Heart, Skins

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• If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Eye, Garden, Temptation

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• Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Hypocrite, Mean

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.304

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• The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Long, Secret

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.87

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• Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

  George Washington

  Men, Mind, Faces

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.246

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• A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

  Gertrude Stein

  Generations, Contemporary, Creator

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Picasso”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.

  Andre Malraux

  Reality, Criticism, Painting

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