Eli Siegel Quotes
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
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Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
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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.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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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.
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Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
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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.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
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You lose everything you love in the order in which you love it.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
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All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
