A Quotes
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“Appearances are deceiving. *Having* authority is not the same as *being* an authority. *Having* the right and *being* the right are not the same either. Being promoted doesn't necessarily mean you're doing good work and it doesn't mean you are worthy of promotion (they call it failing upward in such bureaucracies). *Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.*
To be or to do - life is a constant roll call.”
Source: Ego Is the Enemy
“Appearances are deceiving.”
“Appearances are deceptive.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Appearances are much less important than the courage, discipline, and resolve of people who are economically productive.”
Source: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
“Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.”
Source: Manservant and maidservant
“Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.”
Source: The Good Guy
“Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.”
“Appearances are often deceiving.”
“Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.”
“Appearances, beauty, value and life have their unique mysteries and essence. I prefer that essence to be breathing with humility, honesty, compassion, respect and a timeless love.”
“Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.”
“Appearances can be deceiving: Some of those who own the most expensive homes look homeless.”
“Appearances can be deceptive.........and so can be Disappearances too.......”
“Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has His own timetable. It is we who must learn to adjust to it, not vice versa. When God's time comes nothing will stand in His way. We can therefore wait for Him with this happy confidence: "As for God, His way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31).”
“Appearances can deceive the keenest mind.
Remember my example, and be wise:
When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.”
Source: The Imaginary Cuckold
“Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.”
“Appearances have very little to do with happiness.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....
“Appearances matter — and remember to smile.”
“Appearances may be deceiving.”
“Appearances often are deceiving.”
“Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!”
“Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I was forty-six in The Graduate, on the stage, which is more up close and personal than film. After my middle-age nude scene, though, I unexpectedly got letters from women saying, "I have not undressed in front of my husband in ten years and I'm going to tonight." Or, "I have not looked in the mirror at my body and you gave me permission."
These affirmations from other women were especially touching to me because when I began The Graduate I'd just come through a period when I felt a great loss of confidence, when my rheumatoid arthritis hit me hard and I literally couldn't walk or do any of the things that I was so used to doing. It used to be that if I said to my body, "Leap across the room now," it would leap instantly. I don't know how I did it, but I did it. I hadn't realized how much my confidence was based on my physicality. On my ability to make my body do whatever I wanted it to do.
I was so consumed, not just by thinking about what I could and couldn't do, but also by handling the pain, the continual, chronic pain. I didn't realize how pain colored my whole world and how depressive it was. Before I was finally able to control my RA with proper medications, I truly had thought that my attractiveness and my ability to be attractive to men was gone, was lost. So for me to come back and do The Graduate was an affirmation to myself. I had my body back. I was back.”
Source: Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles
“Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.”
“Appearing thus late in the story, Cecil must be at once described. He was medieval. Like a Gothic statue.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.”
“Appeasement as a policy soon failed. The powerful Babylonian empire, desiring the vast treasures stored in Jerusalem’s Temple, conquered the Holy Land in 586 BCE—razing the building to its foundations. The once glorious city of Jerusalem lay in ruins, a physical embodiment of a spiritual collapse. The Babylonians seized not only the Temple’s material wealth but also carted off its human capital, taking the Israelites’ priests, scholars, and skilled elite back to the court in Babylon—where the exiles wept by its rivers.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.”
Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches
“Appeasement is a venomous affair, Hera. I wonder what beast the Fates have on a leash for you.”
Source: The Incarnate
“Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.”
Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.”
“Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.”
“Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.”
“Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.”
“Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.”
“Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.”
“Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.”
“Appeasing them won’t help. The more they get away with, the more they believe they’re entitled to have.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.”
“Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.”
“Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.”
“Appena il tuo ricordo accarezza la mia anima,
mi vedo bruciare d'amore per te,
consumato dai rimpianti,
e le lacrime mi imperlano le palpebre.”
Source: Le Mille e una Notte: Volume Primo; Volume 1 of 2
“Appena nati ci viene istintivo gridare, e ci mettiamo una vita per imparare ad ascoltare”
Source: A pesca nelle pozze più profonde: Meditazioni sull'arte di scrivere racconti
“Appena parla di imposte sul capitale, dal centro lo interrompono: «Sul suo capitale!». Al suo primo discorso alla Camera, dopo poco più di trecento parole pronunciate, gli viene ripresentata la colpa della sua ricchezza. «Naturalmente anche sul mio» risponde lesto e beffardo «avete impegnato tanto tempo a capirlo?».”
Source: Tempesta: La vita (e non la morte) di Giacomo Matteotti
“Appendages will bloat and change color to that of grass, thanks to gangrene. Many will die from poisoning, but not from their own hands.”
“Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.”
“Appetite comes with eating. So does the truth. If we are willing to come clean, spill the beans, and spit out the truth, we can start with a clean slate and peace of mind, living a life without guilt or fear. ("Behind the frosted glass”)”
“Appetite comes with eating.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel