Exterior Quotes

Exterior Quote of the day

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

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.

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.

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.

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

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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?

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

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

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

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.

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.

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.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

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.

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

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

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

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

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

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.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building’s exterior.

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.