Appearance Quotes - Page 2

• The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Reality, Use

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• We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Pain

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• Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Reflection

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2017

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• When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  Alec Guinness

  Personality, Ego, Acting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

  Sharon Stone

  Practice, Guests

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• My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

  Emma Thompson

  Years, Being A Woman, Changed

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• 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.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Nice, Play

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• Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Boxes, Function

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• 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.

  Penelope Lively

  Beautiful, Way, Intrigued

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• A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

  Helen Reddy

  Feminist, Firsts, Turned Off

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• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Success, Being Yourself, Secret

  "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.

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• Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Evil, Personality

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• Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Looks, Responsible, Persons

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• Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

  Franz Marc

  Spiritual, Europe, Looks

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• Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Weed, Flower, Differences

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1885). “Bye-path Meadow”

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• An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Crowns, Half, Emperor

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• There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

  Margaret of Valois

  Reality, Virtue

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• We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Reflection, Mature, Phenomenon

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• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Art, Objectivity, Creating

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• The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

  Franz Kafka

  Giving, Tasks, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

  George Eliot

  Faith, Errors, Feelings

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.640, Broadview Press

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• Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

  Colin Powell

  Might, Call Of Duty, Surface

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• 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.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beauty, Appreciation, Errors

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Looks, Care, Littles

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