Appearance Quotes

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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to… — Edward Sapir
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/femaleâ€¦In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked… — Laura Mulvey
God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love. — Oscar Romero
Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the… — Paul Cezanne
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the… — Odilon Redon
We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me… — Ashly Lorenzana
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances… — Hippocrates
You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be. — Epictetus
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. — Adi Shankara
Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be… — John Flavel
Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what… — Tobias Wolff
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion… — Federico Fellini
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could… — Gaston Bachelard
Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into… — Henry Moore
When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being. — Leon Brown
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them;… — Algernon Blackwood
Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times… — Dave Winfield
A manâ€™s got to keep up appearances. Iâ€™ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are. — Julia Quinn
I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest… — David Attenborough

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