Appearance Quotes

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I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything. — Ricky Williams
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her… — Naomi Wolf
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West… — Naomi Wolf
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit,… — James A. Forbes
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic… — Michel Foucault
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face. — Marilyn French
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing… — Tony Kushner
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more… — Jane Austen
A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing… — Ezra Taft Benson
There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether… — Samuel Beckett
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass… — George Washington
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in… — Thomas Paine
The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe. — Jean-Paul Sartre
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you,… — Donald Barthelme
What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it… — Richard Bach
Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for… — Richard Bach

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