appearance

It's neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God's Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world. We love the world's judgment but we hate God's judgment. Absurdly enough, the one that really matters, the one out of the purest of loves rather than a mere contract in hopes of mutual gain, is the one which we so adamantly try to shut ourselves off from.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

First appearance deceives many.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma.

Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.

Vanity dulls the senses.

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.