Elaine Scarry Quotes

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down.

Elaine Scarry

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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
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood
  • Sort

• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Expression
  • Boring

• 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
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Beauty
  • Questions
  • Judaism

• 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
  • Time
  • War
  • Hand

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• 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
  • Life
  • Live
  • Black

• Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Beauty
  • Search
  • Signs

• My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Better

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I approach everyday personal beauty very naturally; I try to make it look like I'm not wearing makeup.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Beauty
  • Look
  • Everyday

• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Man
  • Beauty

• The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Beauty
  • Very
  • Outside

• I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Value
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • Together
  • Man

• My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Good
  • Power
  • Movie

• The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beauty
  • Unity
  • Perfection

• I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Dream
  • Baby
  • Scripture

• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Person
  • Race
  • Type

• A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Book

• Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Beauty
  • Chances
  • Particulars