The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
~By Murray Kempton ~
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
~By Laetitia Casta ~
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
~By Martha Beck ~
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.
~By Marie Carmichael Stopes ~
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
~By Hu Shih ~
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
~By Joanne Woodward ~
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
~By Northrop Frye ~
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
~By Dame Edith Evans ~
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
~By Albert Camus ~
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
~By Salvador Dali ~
People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
~By Judith Jamison ~
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
~By Tyra Banks ~
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
~By Henry Ellis ~
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
~By Mike Figgis ~
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
~By John Donne ~
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.
~By Kirk Gibson ~
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
~By Florence King ~
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
~By Jean Paul ~
Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
~By Leni Riefenstahl ~
The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
~By Karolina Kurkova ~
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
~By Jean Kerr ~
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
~By David Byrne ~
Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~By John Donne ~
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
~By Marston Morse ~
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
~By Ouida ~
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
~By Isaac Albeniz ~
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
~By Amanda Peet ~
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
~By Daniel Hannan ~
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
~By William C. Bryant ~
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.
~By Fritz Todt ~
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
~By Roy Barnes ~
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
~By Conor Oberst ~
Love is the beauty of the soul.
~By Saint Augustine ~
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.
~By Mike Judge ~
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
~By Mason Cooley ~
I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.
~By Jerry Mathers ~
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
~By Conrad Hall ~
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
~By Euripides ~
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
~By L. Wolfe Gilbert ~
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
~By Paul Getty ~
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
~By Christo ~
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Beauty is not caused. It is.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
~By James Baldwin ~
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
~By Nikolai Gogol ~
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
~By Arthur Helps ~
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
~By William Temple ~
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
~By Henry Drummond ~
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
~By Richard H. Baker ~
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
~By John Derek ~
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
~By Heather Wilson ~
You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
~By Dan Hawkins ~
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
~By Ovid ~
Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
~By John Masefield ~
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
~By Alberto Korda ~
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
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