Quotes About Image

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

Rock star. The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it's impossible to find a real person behind them. But I am a rock star. I have the bank account of a rock star and the platinum records of a rock star and the girlfriend of a rock star. But I fucking hate that term, and hearing Mia pin it on me ups the level of my loathing to a new stratosphere.

My philosophy: if the heels are high enough, everyone looks like they have runner's calves, right?

He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

People lie because they wish to impress those around them. I seek to impress no one. You would be wise to remember that.

An extremely tattooed man frowned over at her. He had military-cropped brown hair, two eyebrow rings and soft, full lips. He also had more muscles than a world champion power-lifter. He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos. Even his cheeks were painted with violent images of war and weapons. His

The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess.

The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

Deus criou o homem à sua imagem. Isso provavelmente significa: o homem criou Deus à sua própria imagem.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.

Do you really want to go to the Black Sea? Yes, Curran said. I nodded. We do. Saying things like We think this is a trap and We would rather cut off our left foot than go would endanger our ship acquisition and our badass image.

A vivid image of a man with a pencil through his left eye orbit flashed before me, complete with bloody smudges of my fingerprints on the yellow shaft of the pencil. Thank you, dear memory, for once again attempting to sabotage my conversation.

Dans Horizons rouges, j'ai essayé de peindre la vie quotidienne à la cour d'un dictateur communiste. CeauÈ™escu rêve d'être vénéré comme un nouveau Roi-Soleil, être reconnu par l'Histoire comme le Napoléon roumain et sa femme fait des efforts désespérés pour être considérée comme la déesse roumaine de la sagesse et de l'élégance. (Préface à l'édition française)

politicians aren't concerned with justice being done, they're concerned with justice seeming to be done as a result of their keen-eyed vigilance.

But no, she must be there, I felt, so charged with her presence was the image of that city which now rose up before me; and already in my mind I was walking with Anna along the Champs-Élysées, while the warm breeze of an eternal Parisian spring blew into our faces like drifting flowers the promises of a coming felicity.

éclat. Sadie had éclat; or so the public thought, though personally

No hay peor pobreza que la de la gente venida a menos, porque se debe aparentar lo que no se tiene.

He had an image of her in his mind, the same image that appeared to him whenever he was racked by feelings of love.

male vanity goes deeper and is costlier.