Appearance Quotes - Page 28

• Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Hands, Eras, Financial

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• 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

  Kate Millett

  Power, Culture, Fundamentals

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.25, Columbia University Press

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• Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

  Paul Ekman

  Expression, People, Dozen

  Paul Ekman (2009). “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Tennis, Attention, Paid

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• Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Giving Up, Real, People

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.179, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Father, Son, Reality

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• Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Humble, Land, Heritage

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• Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Thinking, Eggs, Enemy

  Tamora Pierce (2003). “Trickster's Choice”, p.379, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Reading, Wish, Titles

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• After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?

  Sibel Edmonds

  War, Islamic, Government

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• For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

  Ulf Merbold

  Ocean, Dark, Space

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• February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dirty, Winter, Two

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• I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, "Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?" I get insecure about things from time to time.

  Jesse McCartney

  Insecure, Important, Care

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and Beware The Gonzo!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Motivation, Interesting

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• My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Grateful, World, Kind

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• I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it.

  Alexa Chung

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Alexa Chung on Body Image: 'Just Because I Exist in this Shape Doesn't Mean I'm Advocating It'". Interview with Hayley Phelan, fashionista.com. October 12, 2012.

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• We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to get on very good terms with more than just the surface of our bodies as we grow older; for if we don't listen to our bodies and pay attention to our physical needs and pleasures, this vehicle that we need to be running well to take us into a long and comfortable life, will limit what we can do and who we become.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Running, Long, Unhappy

  Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Shinoda Bolen M. D. (2011). “Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Ignorance, Perfect, Feelings

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1911). “Souvenirs Entomologiques”, London : A. and C. Black

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• The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Reality, Men, People

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Math, Names

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• If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.

  Neville Goddard

  Judging, Evidence, Senses

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for in that determined assumption you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being all things are possible.

  Neville Goddard

  Creative, Unity, Desire

  Neville Goddard (2013). “The Power of Awareness”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Lying, Trying

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• Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

  Laura Riding

  Deceiving, Enough, Ifs

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