“I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.”
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“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.”
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.”
“There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.”
“But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.”
“You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.”
“Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.”
“Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.”
“When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.”
“I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.”
“Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.”
“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”
“The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.”
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.”
“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”
“The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.”
“A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.”
“It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.”
“My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.”
“Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.”
“Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.”
“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”