Quotes About Appearance
The reversion of Windows to a CLI when it was in distress proved to Mac partisans that Windows was nothing more than a cheap facade, like a garish afghan flung over a rotted-out sofa.
~ Neal Stephenson
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In sum, the man's head looked like a Dutch oven forged over a dying fire with a ball-peen hammer.
~ Neal Stephenson
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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
~ Ned Vizzini
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There's a lot of yuppies in this place, and you have that look about you, you know—the yuppie look of people with money?" "Yeah." "People who don't care about other people.
~ Ned Vizzini
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Above the shirt is her face
~ Ned Vizzini
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Oh boy, now it looked like a duck
~ Ned Vizzini
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And I always look like I'm about to cry.
~ Ned Vizzini
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Well, he said, opening the door to his car, all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it. [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. And then you die.
~ Neil Strauss
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That's the inner me," he admitted. "Inside I sometimes feel pathetic, awkward, and unloved." "Even after all the confidence you acquired as a pickup artist, a husband, and a father?" "Well," he said, opening the door to his car, "all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it." He grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. "And then you die." Slam.
~ Neil Strauss
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The highlight of the seminar was an appearance by two people who would give me my much-coveted inner game and more: Steve P. and Rasputin.
~ Neil Strauss
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He looked like a big baby goose with acne. This
~ Neil Strauss
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And this requires only good grooming, and clothing that conveys an attractive identity.
~ Neil Strauss
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She was not fat, but solid, and she chose protective garments that drew up her bosom to giddy heights, pinched in her waist, flared out her rear, and managed to suggest that Aunt Alexandra's was once an hour-glass figure. From any angle, it was formidable.
~ Nelle Harper Lee
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Depression, the war, and the ninety-percent tax rates of the forties and fifties, there was less and less of this paper, and it finally vanished as mysteriously as it had first appeared.
~ Nelson DeMille
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As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black person who has been scalded with boiling water or who has burned himself with acid creams. Even the hair in their arms and necks stood out stiff and straight like the bristle of an aging hog.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Men judge more from appearances than reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. Everyone sees your exterior, but few can discern what you have in your heart.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Men in general judge more with the eye than with the hand, because everyone can see, but few can feel. Everyone sees what you seem to be, but few feel what you are. – Constantine translation
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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They were freer than their forefathers in dress and living, and spent more in other kinds of excesses, consuming their time and money in idleness, gaming, and women; their chief aim was to appear well dressed and to speak with wit and acuteness, whilst he who could wound others the most cleverly was thought the wisest. In
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes, which it is not prudent to challenge, one judges by the result.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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They were freer than their forefathers in dress and living, and spent more in other kinds of excesses, consuming their time and money in idleness, gaming, and women; their chief aim was to appear well dressed and to speak with wit and acuteness, whilst he who could wound others the most cleverly was thought the wisest.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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People in general judge more by the eyes than by the hands, for everyone can see, but few can feel. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few feel what you are.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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