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Quotes About Surface

look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on
~ Malcolm Gladwell
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Because words are just air, Kanai-babu,' Moyna said. When the wind blows on the water, you see ripples and waves, but the real river lies beneath, unseen and unheard. You can't blow on the water's surface from below, Kanai-babu. Only someone who's outside can do that, someone like you.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Whatever tragic spirit lay behind this polished surface went into her singing, with which she tore people's serenity to shreds, spreading anxiety and regrets and nostalgia everywhere.
~ Anais Nin
Le style des Faux-Monnayeurs ne doit présenter aucun intérêt de surface, aucune saillie. Tout doit être dit de la manière la plus plate, celle qui fera dire à certains jongleurs : que trouvez-vous à admirer là-dedans ?
~ Andre Gide
Sti picciotti parivano poter assorbiri tutto con 'na facilità che forsi era sulo di superfici, ma di 'na superfici enormi, globali, che era la superfici del munno 'ntero. A lui avivano 'nsignato di scinniri 'n profunnità, loro avevano 'mparato a navicari a mari aperto.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Windows no longer comes in a Windows RT version. If you bought a Windows RT tablet, such as the Surface RT or Surface 2, you can't upgrade it to Windows 10.
~ Andy Rathbone
emotions to surface now.
~ Sandra Brown
We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.
~ Sarah Dessen
Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
~ Sarah Dessen
Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. It's a start, I said.
~ Sarah Dessen
Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.
~ Sarah Dessen
Professor Winthrop delivered an influential lecture at Harvard proposing the earthquake might have been caused by heat and pressure below the surface of the earth. With God's help, of course, but God comes off as an engineer instead of a hothead vigilante.)
~ Sarah Vowell
The decisive factor in every contact is that sooner or later the inner intention of the contact comes to the surface - not the outward, alleged or feigned goal.
~ Johanna Paungger
I brought out the dark side of Nixon," Colson recalled, though "you didn't need to work very hard to bring it out—it was always close to the surface." The president was "a gut fighter….His first reaction was to fight back…to get even.
~ John A. Farrell
These beliefs are partly drawn from Scripture, partly not, and the interplay between the surface meaning of the biblical text and the meanings that have been read into it is part of the fascination of biblical study. In
~ John Barton
When an apparition came to an artist, it came almost invisibly, trailing a distant, unrecognisably vast sound, and he or she found it and traced where it nudged the surface, the facing surface, on which it would now stay visible even when it had withdrawn and gone back into the one.
~ John Berger
Grief is an ocean, fathomless and wide, and on the surface its most impelling forces arrive in waves
~ John Birmingham
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
~ John Dryden
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
every province had its own character, and in each one there was both appearance and reality. Even a province that seemed weak on the surface could have hidden strengths. Conversely, provinces that looked strong—like Mino and Suruga—might be rotten from within.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
There may be deep thought, but deep people don't exist. Our bodies must float on the surface, otherwise we drown.
~ Anthony Marais
The sun burned white, conjugating its colorlessness, it's fixed, blazing surface, against sand so blank that it induced visions.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto