Elaine Scarry Quotes
Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down.
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
Octavia Spencer
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Beauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
Tamara Tunie
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.
Halima Aden
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
Bayard Taylor
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
Rachel Bilson
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
Patrick Demarchelier
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
A. J. Liebling
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Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
Francesca da Rimini
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Oscar Niemeyer
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I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do.
Iris Apfel
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Orison Swett Marden
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People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.
Lee Iacocca
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I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.
Boy George Culture Club
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.
Haruki Murakami
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
J. B. Smoove
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Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down.
Elaine Scarry