Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
~By James Thurber ~
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
~By Denis Waitley ~
There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.
~By Willie Aames ~
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
~By Aristotle ~
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
~By John Owen ~
I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland is suited for a king and it is his castle. And people really should see it, as he loved it.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
~By Jose Marti ~
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
~By Og Mandino ~
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
~By Phaedrus ~
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
~By John Donne ~
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
~By Sting ~
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
~By Brian P. Cleary ~
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
~By Thomas Shepard ~
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
~By Richard Carlson ~
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
~By Douglas Horton ~
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
~By Thomas Willis ~
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
~By Juvenal ~
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~By Simon Raven ~
If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.
~By Simon Cowell ~
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
~By Aeschylus ~
Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
~By Benjamin E. Mays ~
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
~By John Andre ~
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
~By Samuel Butler ~
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
~By F. L. Lucas ~
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
~By Richard Steele ~
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
~By Solomon Burke ~
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
~By Terence Fisher ~
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
~By Ted Danson ~
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
~By Voltaire ~
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
~By Chanakya ~
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
~By Richard Blackmore ~
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
~By Carl Van Vechten ~
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
~By Anne Hutchinson ~
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
~By Studs Terkel ~
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
~By Alan K. Simpson ~
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
~By Milton Berle ~
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
~By Louis Nizer ~
But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
~By Mel Tillis ~
Courage is grace under pressure.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
~By Robert Hunter ~
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
~By Julie Burchill ~
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
~By Max de Pree ~
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years.
~By Ryne Sandberg ~
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.
~By Payne Stewart ~
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 ~
All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.
~By Philip Henry ~
I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.
~By Mary McDonnell ~
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
~By James Thurber ~
I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
~By Martin Puryear ~
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
~By Thomas Erskine ~
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
~By Anne Lamott ~
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
~By Saul Bellow ~
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
~By Warren Buffett ~
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
~By W. C. Fields ~
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
~By John Ruskin ~
For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.
~By Paul Bettany ~
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
~By Karl Barth ~
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
~By May Sarton ~
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
~By William Pitt ~
I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.
~By Jude Law ~
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.
~By Rick Perry ~
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
~By Roger Mahony ~
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
~By Aeschylus ~
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
~By David Friedman ~
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.
~By Amisha Patel ~
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
~By Archibald Alexander ~
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
~By Patrick Campbell ~
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
~By Bert Williams ~
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