100 Exterior Quotes

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Famous Exterior Quotes

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world. — Roy Lichtenstein

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place. — Ken Wilber

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality. — Kyan Douglas

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home. — Frank Lloyd Wright

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior — Romain Gary

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you — Jim Rohn

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. — Aesop

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. — Olive Schreiner

Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside. — Bob Proctor

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed. — Charles Handy

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface. — Bill Viola

When the drop is inside the sense is outside — Irish Proverbs

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside. — Earl Nightingale

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. - T. Harv Eker

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. — T. Harv Eker

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. — Diane Abbott

Short Exterior Quotes

  • If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior. — Catherine McAuley
  • Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. — Oscar Levant
  • Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. — Juvenal
  • Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself. — Nikolai Berdyaev
  • We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior. — Shay Mitchell
  • Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it. — Richelle Mead
  • Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper
  • We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. — Vernon Howard
  • A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. — Sayings
  • One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance. — Samuel Foote

Exterior Image Quotes

Nature Quotes

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically. — Antonin Scalia

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power. — Dick Gregory

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. — Alexander Hamilton

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. — Hippocrates

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. — George Washington Carver

External Quotes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aurelius

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. — K. Pattabhi Jois

You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent. — Joseph Murphy

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. — Dale Carnegie

Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. — Sivananda

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity. — Kano Jigoro

Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism. — Jomo Kenyatta

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. — Dalai Lama

Interior Quotes

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. - Peter York

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck

Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic. — Albert Hadley

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message. — Eero Saarinen

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. — Carl Sagan

I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life. — Elsie De Wolfe

One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes. — Verner Panton

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. - Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. — Tadao Ando

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More Exterior Quotes

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. — Mark Twain

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul. — Anthony of Padua

. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers. — Vincent de Paul

We've gotten caught up in thinking we are what we look like, the physical, the exterior. We think we're the lamp shade. We've forgotten that we are the light-the electricity and the luminosity that lights up every man, woman, and child. The light is who we truly are. — Michael Beckwith

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible? — Johann Kaspar Lavater

These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! — Pierre Corneille

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. — Alan Jay Lerner

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions. — Arsenius the Great

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you. — James Hollis

The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside — Bruno Dumont

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes. — Barry Lopez

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth. — Sayings

Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior. — Jennifer Beals

Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success. — Hrithik Roshan

Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue. — Paul of the Cross

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves. — Vernon Howard

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. — Andre Breton

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. — Walt Whitman

No matter if you wear a small amount of makeup, no makeup, or heavy makeup, as long as you feel beautiful internally and you're doing beautiful things for other people, and not just focusing on the exterior to make yourself happy, I think you should do what works for you. You should rock on. — Janelle Monae

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. — Auguste Rodin

I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way. — Jim Dine

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love. — John of the Cross

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. — Constantin Brancusi

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away. — Blaise Cendrars

The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs. — Robert Duvall

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. — Judith Butler

By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union. — David Truman

Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces. — Earl Nightingale

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings. — Swami Vivekananda

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function — Gottfried Bohm

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced. — Jonathan Lethem

Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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