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Quotes About Image

My dad was an attorney. The last thing he ever thought about was clothes, and yet somehow he always looked good.
~ Thom Browne
If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
What you post on Facebook represents you, it can make you look bitter or better, forgiving or frustrated, resentful or rejoicing, choose wisely.
~ Rob Liano
You don't deserve my image in your head. You don't deserve my memories in your chest.
~ Coco J. Ginger
Personality can either kill or enhance your appearance.
~ Mary Mihalic, Made to Make It
And no matter how accomplished one may be, the hard work is to no avail if one doesn't have the proper clothes in which to appear in public.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
If God is a loving God He will forgive us Himself. If God is a vengeful God then He has created us in His Image.
~ Miriam Toews
El fet d'haver estat creats a imatge de Déu ens deixa un cert espai per a les nostres ànimes, per tenir-ne i per estar al seu servei. El poder de què disposem és el de sotmetre'ns al de les nostres ànimes.
~ Miriam Toews
The self we create is a fiction. On this point, religion and cognitive neuroscience converge. When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as the television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate.
~ Mohsin Hamid
In order for genuine affection to take place, knowledge of the lovable other is needed. An image has to become fixed in the mind – a face, a voice, a picture, a garment at the very least – some kind of reminder of the person. In other words, love requires lovable features, not lofty concepts, ethereal entities, or other vagaries devoid of attributes. This kind of 'love' is primitive, undeveloped, and usually self-deluding.
~ Mukunda Goswami
What pain and discomfort people endure to look important.
~ Murray Bodo
Genesis 1:27 says, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; Male and female he created them." Thus, the image of God is not solely male, but both male and female, separately and collectively. Thus, we may know that men and women are equally the image of God. Perhaps humankind is the correct term we should use, suggesting that men and women together make up the image of The Divine.
~ Nancy Chandler
Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.
~ Nancy Etcoff
Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.
~ Nancy Mitford
To the extent people prioritize values and goals such as achievement, money, power, status and image, they tend to hold more negative attitudes towards the environment, are less likely to engage in positive environmental behaviors, and are more likely to use natural resources unsustainably
~ Naomi Klein
Since many of today's best-known manufacturers no longer produce products and advertise them, but rather buy products and "brand" them, these companies are forever on the prowl for creative new ways to build and strengthen their brand images.
~ Naomi Klein
Trump didn't just enter politics as a so-called outsider, somebody who doesn't play by the rules. He entered politics playing by a completely different set of rules—the rules of branding. According to those rules, you don't need to be objectively good or decent; you only need to be true and consistent to the brand you have created
~ Naomi Klein
Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product.
~ Naomi Klein
created a performance-based image that was impossible to shame—because his brand was being shameless.
~ Naomi Klein
We are in the midst of a violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement: the beauty myth. It is the modern version of a social reflex that has been in force since the Industrial Revolution. As women released themselves from the feminine mystique of domesticity, the beauty myth took over its lost ground, expanding as it waned to carry on its work of social control.
~ Naomi Wolf
women who looked like fashion models—admitted to knowing, from the time they could first consciously think, that the ideal was someone tall, thin, white, and blond, a face without pores, asymmetry, or flaws, someone wholly "perfect," and someone whom they felt, in one way or another, they were not. I
~ Naomi Wolf
The beauty myth generates low self-esteem for women and high profits for corporations as a result.
~ Naomi Wolf
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us.
~ Naomi Wolf
A girl learns that stories happen to beautiful women, whether they are interesting or not. And, interesting or not, stories do not happen to women who are not beautiful.
~ Naomi Wolf