Guise Quotes - Page 3

• Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility, that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life, love Him as you loved Hitn and serve Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Religious, Jesus

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Jobs, Past

  "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations". Book by James Surowiecki, 2004.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2607, Manonmani Publishers

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Weakness, Needs, Feels

  9 Copy quote

• Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

  Charles Ludlam

  Years, Sublime, Ridiculous

  Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic.

  Tina Modotti

  Religious, Believe, Eye

  20 Copy quote

• An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Evil, World

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.719, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Pain, Philosophy

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.36, Broadway Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

  Jonathan Stroud

  Mother, Sweet, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in this guise." "Well,you could put on a pair of shorts,at least.Your not decent." "I'm not sure they'd go with the wings..." The demon frowend,and blinked."Hold on,enough of this." "Lenderhosen would. They'd compliment the leather.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Wings, Clothes, Pairs

  6 Copy quote

• No matter what happens, we'll always be together, always find a way to locate each other. No matter which guise my soul decides to wear, I will always return to you. Just like I always have returned to you.

  Alyson Noel

  Soul, Together, Matter

  5 Copy quote

• Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

  Stevie Smith

  Soul, Peculiar, Tolls

  Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.297, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

  Paula Fox

  Inspirational, Life, Educational

  12 Copy quote

• Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Men, Arrogant, Fool

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.62, Sourcebooks, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Home, Eye, Dark

  47 Copy quote

• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  Hannah Arendt

  Odds, Law, Miracle

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• …you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Country, Wind, Heaven

  Daphne Du Maurier (1941). “Frenchman's creek”, Doubleday Book & Music Clubs

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Real, Hands, Groups

  "Islam is not a monolith" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2013.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

  George McGovern

  Becoming, Behavior, Aggressive

  "Recruit George McGovern to Speak -at the REPUBLICAN Convention!" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

  Mike Mills

  Lying, Actors, Pretending

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Cutting, Long

  30 Copy quote

• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  Harold Pinter

  Smile, Views, Hands

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

  William H. Gass

  Temptation, Alive, Return

  William H. Gass (2010). “A Temple of Texts”, p.346, Knopf Group E-Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Sadness, Boys

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Oliver Twist: Classic English Literature”, p.144, 谷月社

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself

  Charles Bukowski

  Impossible Situations, Quitting, Force

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.393, Zondervan

  11 Copy quote

  Show source