Beauty Quotes
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Plato
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
Laurie Anderson
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia Woolf
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True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.
Amy Davis
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The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.
Eric Gill
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You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
Nicole Kidman
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The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Conan O'Brien
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
Plato
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Expressions are many but Thy loveliness is one; Each of us refers to that single Beauty.
Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi
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I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
Claude Monet
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
George Bernard Shaw
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Beauty is less important than quality.
Eugene Ormandy
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For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
Richard Morris
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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
Lauren Graham
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I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.
Elizabeth Ray
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.
Emily Dickinson
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Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
Plotinus
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Anyway, I would not be happy to see a beautiful, well-proportioned woman, no matter from which point of view, however extravagant, not only lose her beauty in order to, I would say, increase in size according to the law of vision, but no longer appear beautiful, and, in fact, become monstrous.
El Greco
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
Aristotle
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I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego. And I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.
Brad Willis