110 Guise Quotes

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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. - Anaxagoras

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. — Anaxagoras

Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. — Annie Jacobsen

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. — Niccolo Machiavelli

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. — Aldous Huxley

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

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability. — Kevin Mitnick

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. — Adam Clarke

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. — Victor Hugo

The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape. — William Shakespeare

Be as you wish to seem. — Socrates

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. — Alfred Nobel

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. - William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. — William Shakespeare

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. - William Shakespeare

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. — William Shakespeare

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. — Barbara Tuchman

Short Guise Quotes

  • If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. — James Madison
  • Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise. — Agatha Christie
  • There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. — Thomas Jefferson
  • Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. — Denise Levertov
  • I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises. — James Beard
  • There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' — Raymond Loewy
  • Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox
  • If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. — James Madison
  • Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke
  • If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away. — Richard B. Garnett

Guise Image Quotes

Find The Goodness Quotes

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. — Plato

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world. — Kwame Nkrumah

When a man finds a good woman and treats her the way she deserves to be treated it will change his Life. God favors a man that finds his wife and Loves her the way God Loves her — Tony Gaskins

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it. — Jesse Owens

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. — Cecil Rhodes

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow. — Alan Turing

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. — Ajahn Brahm

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. — Mark Twain

I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble. — John Lewis

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness Guide Quotes

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. - Che Guevara

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. — Che Guevara

Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator. — Haile Selassie

Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide. — Phillis Wheatley

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. - Walt Disney

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. — Che Guevara

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed. — James C. Collins

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness. — Bruce Lee

The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them. — George Muller

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. — Brad Henry

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man. — Michael Gurian

R Quotes

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever. — Ratan Tata

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. — Robert Burns

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise. — Rem Koolhaas

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When I'm dating someone, I have a list called my 'Oh No Nos.' If a woman commits a Oh No No, it can end the relationship. Not loving '90s R&B music is #3 on the Oh No Nos list. Girl don't even know who Ginuwine is. — Aziz Ansari

I take a lot of personal pride and motivation to be able to make a difference in areas that may fall through the cracks in R&D across the industry. — Vivek Ramaswamy

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America. — Naomi Wolf

Disguise Quotes

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. — Ann Landers

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. — Charles R. Swindoll

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. - Lao Tzu

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao Tzu

What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends But they really your enemies, with secret indentities And disguises, to hide they true colors So just when you think you close enough to be brothers They wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'. — Sayings

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude. - Robert Downey, Jr.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise - Young Jeezy

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise — Young Jeezy

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. — Jim Morrison

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise - Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise — Oscar Wilde

God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill

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More Guise Quotes

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality. — Loren Eiseley

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind — Tadao Ando

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. — Howard Thurman

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security. — Alfred Adler

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot. — John Lennon

The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species. — Chris Hedges

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. — Paul Johnson

Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference. — Raila Odinga

The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation. — Hugo Black

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you — Johnny Depp

...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness. — Soren Kierkegaard

When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love. — Iris Murdoch

Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises. — Roger Housden

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. — Harold Pinter

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. — Simone Weil

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight. — Fidel Castro

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification. — Anita Brookner

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates. — Elizabeth I

I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . . — Corliss Lamont

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. — Harry A. Blackmun

Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle. — Pedro Noguera

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor. — Mother Teresa

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'. — Bill Hicks

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend. — William James

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion. — Georgia Harkness

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not. — Marilyn French

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises. — Eugenie Scott

St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. — Charles Madigan

For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many. — Frank Beddor

To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male. — Starhawk

In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence. — Buddha

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. — Hannah Arendt

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. — Erich Fromm

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe. — Bat for Lashes

The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification. — Patrick David Wall

There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise. — Felicia Hemans

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