beauty

"To save something beautiful you must destroy it, so it does not fall, limp and degraded, from our miserable human hands."

"'Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience' was a common saying among the Lark Rise people. —"

"Yesterday I visited Rotterdam for a while.. .It is a beautiful city. Always turbulent, dirty and picturesque, especially the vest and the harbor-neighborhoods. For the newer city I don't care at all."

"The large body of the swan wedged in the shattered glass of the car windscreen fills the film frame. Its head is bent back on itself in a parody of its orthodox gracefulness."

"Music should always be a means of bridging gaps and uniting people. The beauty of music is that it can -- and should -- gather a wide variety of concepts in a way that's universal."

"Spurgeon at CCEL; All of Grace at CCEL; Downloads page at CCEL"

"But basilicas of the greatest dignity and beauty may also be constructed in the style of that one which I erected, and the building of which I superintended at Fano."

"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."

"I always said that it was going to be beautiful that Paulina presented me as entertainer and I sang."

"deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return;"

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid."

"Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all."

"Inventor of a new mythology and weaver of surprising folklore, Lord Dunsany stands dedicated to a strange world of fantastic beauty . . . unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and su…"

"No country is more beautiful than England."

"The climbing soul, leaving all that she has grasped already as too narrow for her needs, will thus grasp the idea of that magnificence which is exalted far above the heavens. But how can any one reach…"

"Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of be…"

"Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him..."

"I have always found the spear to be a rather inelegant weapon"

"If in any community a person gains enlightenment and nearness of God, God in His grace for his sake forgives the whole community its transgressions."

"I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first resp…"