Things Arent Always As They Appear Quotes

When strong, appear weak. Brave, appear fearful. Orderly, appear chaotic. Full, appear empty. Wise, appear foolish. Many, appear to be few. Advancing, appear to retreat. Moving quickly, appear to be slow. Taking, appear to leave. In one place, appear to be in another. ~ Sun Tzu

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. ~ Robert Jordan

True champions arent always the ones that win,but those with the most guts. ~ Mia Hamm

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.. ~ Ogden Nash

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath. ~ Michael Sheen

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment. ~ Ian Anderson

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. ~ Alan Watts

I may appear to be full of myself because I always want better. ~ Mohammed VI Of Morocco

The Bible says gays arent natural.
What, and a talking snake is?! ~ Russell Howard

Whether I appear in 'Avatar 2' or 'Avatar 3', I always feel I'm a part of the 'Avatar' team. ~ Stephen Lang

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture. ~ Ken Auletta

To bad guys arent like Mr. Potato head where you can pick and chose which parts you want. ~ Susane Colasanti

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are. ~ Angela Merkel

Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that it was made. ~ Tom Kite

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld. ~ Karl Philipp Moritz

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth. ~ Julian Cope

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast ... .Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy. ~ Miyamoto Musashi

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart? ~ Jacque Fresco

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet. ~ Michael Arndt

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship. ~ Richard P. Feynman

I've always been fascinated by twins. In my forty years of photographing, whenever there was an opportunity, I would take a picture of twins. I found the notion that two people could appear to look exactly alike very compelling. ~ Mary Ellen Mark

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~ Albert Barnes

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. ~ Charles Van Doren

Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise. ~ Umberto Eco

The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews. ~ Ben Brantley

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. ~ Dylan Thomas

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. ~ William Whitelaw

Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation. ~ Frederick Lenz

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. ~ Charles Baudelaire

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults. ~ Robert Grosseteste

My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed securities. ~ Jenna Lee

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right. ~ Terence

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. ~ Moliere

When you smile, you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent. ~ Ron Gutman

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. ~ Ellsworth Huntington

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. ~ Herodotus

You are a guardian ... arent you?"
He nailed me with his eyes. "Yes."
"So ... why are you with me? ~ Georgia Kakalopoulou

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script. ~ John Hughes

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way. ~ Kate Millett

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it. ~ Gordon Ramsay

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. ~ Alan Dundes

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak. ~ Brian Williams

Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent. ~ Amber Heard

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself. ~ David Frost

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial. ~ David Duchovny

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. ~ Merle Shain

The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. ~ Tennessee Williams

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient. ~ Alan Cooper

God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality. ~ C.J. Anderson

Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned. ~ Nancy Duarte

I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful. ~ Ralph Venning

I just let the character speak to me and things appear. ~ Shirley Knight

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. ~ Orson Welles

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. ~ Homer

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable. ~ Sally Mann

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines. ~ Kelly Reilly

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal. ~ Garth Nix

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects. ~ Ben Bernanke

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts. ~ Susan Cain

Certain things might appear to be bad or wrong in our eyes but if we try to look at from a different angle it would appear true or right. ~ Joseph Jose

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not. ~ Tertullian

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football. ~ Ruud Gullit

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

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. ~ Morris Raphael Cohen

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. ~ Thomas Bulfinch

The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct. ~ David Brin

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports? ~ Barton Gellman

You appear to have a good project ... we wish you well in this endeavor. ~ David Packard

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose. ~ Oscar Wilde

But there is always creative destruction in markets: there are always new winners taking the place of those that are. So if you only look at the market's surface, it may appear flat, but there's always huge turbulence taking place within. ~ Kerr Neilson

So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are. ~ William Jay

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. ~ Mark Caine

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. ~ Enya

Certain foods, such as meat, appear to harbour toxic bacteria - known as endotoxins - that can trigger inflammation in your arteries, even when food is fully cooked. ~ Michael Greger

There will always exist inequalities which will appear unjust to those who suffer from them, disappointments which will appear unmerited, and strokes of misfortune which those hit have not deserved. But when these things occur in a society which is consciously directed, the way in which people will react will be very different from what it is when they are nobody's conscious choice. ~ Friedrich Hayek

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them. ~ David Sze

Either appear as you are
Or be as you appear
Be like the sun in compassion and mercy
Be like the light in covering others' shame
Be like a stream in generosity and beneficence
Be like earth in modesty and humility
Be like the sea in tolerance
Be like death in irritability and anger
Either appear as you are
Or be as you appear
The Dervish Gate ~ Ahmet Umit

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman. ~ Donny Deutsch

Only when man cornered,
potential forced to appear. ~ Toba Beta

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect. ~ Shirley Manson

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living. ~ Edward Forbes

India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book. ~ Amish Tripathi

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life. ~ Carolina Herrera

I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job. ~ Brian Lamb

Learn always but never appear to be learning. ~ Robert Ludlum

Dictatorships may seem strong and unified, but they are always weaker than they appear. ~ Hyeonseo Lee

My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable. ~ Ken Leung

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination. ~ Godfried Danneels

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear. ~ John Lurie

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others. ~ Edmund Phelps

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ~ Plato

A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken by Sharia councils, and that is a significant concern. ~ Theresa May

No matter who you are, no matter how difficult things might appear to be, you are always being moved towards magnificence. Always. ~ Rhonda Byrne

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be. ~ Lakshmi Mittal

It is not always wise to appear singular. ~ Taylor Caldwell

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. ~ Arthur Bloch