A Quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
American - Historian
October 15, 1917 - February 28, 2007

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Tallulah Bankhead

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

Edward Gibbon

There is more here than meets the eye.

Murasaki Shikibu

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

Neil Young

The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.

Aldous Huxley

Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

Hanna Rosin

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

W. H. Auden

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Rudyard Kipling

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

Jean Anouilh

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

Annabelle Selldorf

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.