It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they put into their appearance back then was so grown up and specific to that era.
You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!
Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
All hoods make not monks.
You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look
The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!. . . You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.
Appearances may be deceiving.
Do not judge from mere appearances.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [. . . . ] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red. . . But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.
True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.
Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.
[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.