“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”
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“Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.”
“I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.”
“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”
“During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.”
“Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”
“Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.”
“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”
“A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.”
“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.”
“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.”
“Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.”
“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.”
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”
“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”
“Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.”
“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.”
“It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.”
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
“Walk on a rainbow trail walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.”