Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
The magic in these Masonic rituals is very, very old. And way back in those days, it worked. As time went on, and it started being used for spectacle, to consolidate what were only secular appearances of power, it began to lose its zip. But the words, moves, and machinery have been more or less faithfully carried down over the millennia, through the grim rationalizing of the World, and so the magic is still there, though latent, needing only to touch the right sensitive head to reassert itself.
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
Outward appearances mean everything.
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.
To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.
With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste
To be disgraced in the eye of the world, to wear the appearance of infamy while her heart is all purity, her actions all innocence, and the misconduct of another the true source of her debasement, is one of those circumstances which peculiarly belong to the heroine's life, and her fortitude under it what particularly dignifies her character. Catherine had fortitude too; she suffered, but no mumur passed her lips.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
And I fancy, besides, that we seem like such different people ... through various circumstances, that we cannot perhaps have many points in common. But yet I don't believe in that last idea myself, for it often only seems that there are no points in common, when there really are some ... it's just laziness that makes people classify themselves according to appearances, and fail to find anything in common.... But perhaps I am boring you? You seem ...
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.
Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.
Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.
I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
If they feel they're not there on merit that can also have very bad implications. It's really about getting the balance, about being active but also retaining the appearance that everyone is qualified and doing a good job.
We finally are operating with a full staff, ... And its been nice. But things happen around the clock. Even after you solve the crimes, theres crime reports, grand jury appearances, trial testimony. If you have enough personnel to spread that workload out, the less impact it has on other staff members.
James Coburn made an appearance at the Miramax celebration -- The partying begins, for a few hours, and then we're going home to bed, ... Affliction.
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. (Anna Letitia
Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
He should be making an appearance before too long to talk to everybody.
We're still talking to condo developers, but our purpose is to create very traditional-style duplex condominiums. They will be very single-family in appearance.
I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.
We did a lot of things to put ourselves in position to win, but we just can't seem to make the big plays right now. The biggest problem we had was an inability to score runs. We only struck out four times in 21 plate appearances, which tells me we are putting the bat on the ball, but we are hitting it right at people.
Last year Duke had a monster recruiting class. This year North Carolina has a monster recruiting class. These two teams, with the way their personnel is rigged, should basically alternate Final Four appearances.
I don't do this type of appearance very often. But this was something different.
On the basis of the sketches, police have detained eight people, including two suspects whose appearance is similar to the sketches.
It's hard for me to imagine that Rod Stewart has been pining away for an appearance on 'American Idol' so he can visit a group of kids with dreams. You can't deny the impact 'American Idol' has had on artists' record sales.
This has given me the greatest trouble and still does to realize that what things are called is incomparably more important than what they are. The reputation, name, and appearance, the usual measure and weight of a thing, what it counts for -- originally almost always wrong and arbitrary, thrown over things like a dress and altogether foreign to their nature and even to their skin -- all this grows from generation unto generation, merely because people believe in it, until it gradually grows to be part of the thing and turns into its very body what at first was appearance becomes in the end, almost invariably, the essence and is effective as such.
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.
You have to understand, when you're a part of UAF hockey, your time is constantly pulled out by a number of different ways. You have appearances, and talking to kids in schools, and dealing with academics and all the work they have to do as part of the hockey team. Honestly, the guys are more relaxed on the road. They don't have any of those usual pressures.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
We tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance their 'good looks,' their social status, their family pedigrees, their degrees, or their economic situations. The Lord, however, has a different standard by which he measures a person. When it came time to choose a king to replace King Saul, the Lord gave this criteria to his prophet Samuel 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature for the Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.'
It's full-time work, wrestling, appearances and stuff. I couldn't put my full effort into a newspaper column and I'd probably do a lousy job at it.
It really gives the appearance that the judges have to answer to the politicians, and our democracy is set up very clearly to ensure the judiciary is independent from the executive branch.
Our recent visits to some stores indicate better controls over displays, clutter, and shelf appearance, necessary steps to stabilize store aesthetics in support of their apparel initiatives.
The dealer took 2,000 off the asking price, as long as I agreed to make an appearance at his dealership some time in the future. It's taken long enough, but I've finally got back to town to settle up.
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
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