We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.
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Quotes tagged ‘appearances’
Never judge things by their appearance... even carpetbags. I'm sure I never do.
— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews, imdb.com
Always bitchy, never butchy.
By classifying these places as experiences, their creators seem to imply that something happens there. But what? Most human experiences don’t have to announce themselves as such.
First Rule of Humanity: People are usually what they appear to be.
Trying to look smart but not too smart.
Maybe more than any other part of our physical selves, hair has the ever-present capacity to betray us.
If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.
Adena El Amin: You know, there's a lot more inside of a woman than what you can see on the outside. Kat Edison: Yeah, I know. There's a lot more inside of me, too.
What was it we say about appearances? Yes, they can be deceiving. But most of the time, what you see is what you get.
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, ‘rest.’ We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial ‘door-nail,’ say, is…
I feel like you wear a mask when I meet you. Shadows in the yard, what do we do?
She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.
I'm too tall to marry.
First impressions are very important.
Lilly! Just stop it, OK? Just because your hair sucks, get off mine!
Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.
It seemed like a joke, how much all of these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive.
Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.