Quotes:As you get older, it's nice to be able to relax a bit about your
appearance. Writing does that for me. It comes from inside me, from my brain and from my heart, and hopefully it has much more value than anything that's on the exterior.
View quotes by Emma SammsIt was a genuinely emotional moment: I've never seen anything like that. [on Blair's final
appearance at Prime Ministers Questions]
View quotes by John PienaarWhere ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the
appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
View quotes by David HumePeople were concerned to give him a good send-off, rather than to challenge him [on Blair's last
appearance in the House of Commons]
View quotes by Sir Menzies CampbellThe creditor whose
appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms
View quotes by Johann Lavater Richard Hadlee has the
appearance of a rickety church steeple and a sever manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.
View quotes by Peter RoebuckAll beings in Flatland, animate or inanimate, no matter what their form, present to our view the same, or nearly the same,
appearance. [On living in a two rather than three dimensional world]
View quotes by Edmund JohnstonBeauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its
appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAn 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.
View quotes by Alec GuinnessAll that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no
appearance of probability
View quotes by David HumeI 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.
View quotes by Alexander FlemingHumility 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.
View quotes by Saint AugustineIf he doesn't play very, very well and I play one of my best matches, I have a little bit of a chance [on his Masters final
appearance vs Roger Federer]
View quotes by Rafael NadalAttitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than
appearance, giftedness, or skill.
View quotes by W C FieldsA tyrant must put on the
appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
View quotes by AristotleOur
appearance is a powerful communication tool, sending messages to every sighted person. Everyone is highly influenced by the visual impression of a person they are meeting for the first time
View quotes by Catherine BellMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. [
Appearance and Reality, Preface]
View quotes by F H BradleyA woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere
appearance and beauty
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