beauty

"The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending."

"..it is really beautiful here with that freezing weather. o you should see now the distance, and the fields with their black earth and flat shadows it would strike you, how lovely the sun is shining i…"

"Incredibly, Apple has persuaded Disney, which owns ABC, to make available all episodes of five TV series, including "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "That's So Raven." Each show costs $1.99 — an eas…"

"Curses and insults about the companions of the Prophet, which they called "Tabarra", is another basis of Shiism, and this is a disgraceful ugliness. Shiite books are full of curses and insults."

"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

"Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace."

"As for the beauty of the gods, not even Hermes tried to describe it in his tale; he said that it transcended description, and must be comprehended by the eye of the mind; for in words it was hard to p…"

"The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse."

"This book is begun by God’s gift and His grace, but it is not yet performed, as to my sight."

"When I try to psychoanalyze myself, I find that my desires to look female, to look feminine, and to look beautiful are not exactly the same, but they're woven together so tightly that it's kind of dif…"

"Christ is a persuasion, a form of evoking desire... Such an account must inevitably make an appeal to beauty."

"The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes."

"Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets."

"The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity."

"I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless."

"Evelyn Waugh : The Beauty of His Malice" obituary in TIME"

"Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at all."

"We do not wish to penalise the machine for its inability to shine in beauty competitions, nor to penalise a man for losing in a race against an aeroplane. The conditions of our game make these disabil…"

"In the Old Testament stories, … the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two realms of the sublime and the everyday are not only actually unseparated but basicall…"

"When you're interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice the…"