Pastoral Resources

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.