#superficial

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#i #i wish #incomplete #may #me

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#attractive #beauty #belief #body #common

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#declined #equally #failure #glad #office

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#our #preventing #savior #superficiality #tradition

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#closer #debate #emerge #end #engage

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying

...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#beauty-fleeting #soul #superficiality #wisdom #beauty

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are. ↗

— Larry Norman

#discover #encourage #fit #i #into

I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. ↗

— Edward Norton

#i #like #one thing #superficially #thing