Browsing Quotes With Tag: beauty (10)
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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Speaker: William MorrisSource: the Simple Guide to a Minimalist LifePosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
She liked that idea, God being in all things that she could see, because she liked seeing things and wanted to believe in these things that she loved looking at – loved the notion that it was all here and easily observable, with ones eyes being in some way the clergy, the connection between God and –
Speaker: Dave EggersSource: How We Are HungryPosted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This story is equally or more about surfing. People are no more interesting than waves and mountains.
Speaker: Dave EggersSource: How We Are HungryPosted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature… yes, that’s it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are – vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth – and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I enjoy reading the leaflets that come with medication, the respite provided by the precision of each technical term, which convey the illusion of meticulousness and a frisson of simplicity, and elicit a spatiotemporal dimension free of any striving for beauty, creative angst or the never-ending and hopeless aspiration to attain the sublime.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent, condemns one, in our society, to a dark and disillusioned life, a condition one ought to accept at an early age. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things – some sort of balancing of the scales offered by nature to those less favored among her children – no, it is a superfluous plaything that exists only to enhance the value of a jewel. As for ugliness, it is guilty from the start, and I was doomed by my tragic destiny to suffer all the more, for I was hardly stupid.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 23 Jun 2009 at 7:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportion.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I think it’s nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it’s all a big lie. The problem is I don’t know who’s lying. And I don’t know why these magazines sell as much as they do. And I don’t know why the ladies in the dentist’s office like them as much as they do.
…The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me feel particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. And she’s always on a diet. Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Pretty?” he echoed. “Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings and not her face that’ll make my mouth fall open. I’ve already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!