Ann Romney Quotes

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

All is not gold that glitters.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

You can't go by what things look like on paper.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances.

Appearances are deceptive.

Things are not what they seem.

You never know what's really happening behind closed doors. Everything isn't always what it seems.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

Everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.