beauty

"The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition."

"That Muretto di Alassio by Mario Berrino is a beautiful color film."

"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

"Guide, Pyaasa — these are my films that can be remade with current actors. But the music and lyrics should not be changed. Because you cannot have a samba or bhangra beat for the seduction scene in Py…"

"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole unive…"

"Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a bea…"

"We had a very lovely place with a garden directly on the lake. It was on the edge of Ascona. Next to it began the Campagna , and this Campagna was enchantingly beautiful, like a dream."

"Grace is the absence of every thing that indicates pain or difficulty, or hesitation or incongruity."

"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. For, in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better position than that from which it can light up the whole thi…"

"Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty."

"There is danger in deep water, and danger is more real than beauty in a boy’s mind."

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this li…"

"When the mind sees this, it will rid itself of attachment which holds that "I" am beautiful, "I" am good, "I" am evil, "I" am suffering, "I" have, "I" this or "I" that. You will experience a state of …"

"I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in t…"

"Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?"

"Harry Dresden: Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night."

"Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor …"

"“Nobody is too good or too bad to qualify for God’s grace."

"Because you paled on seeing my ugliness, your son shall be pale , and that will be his name, O, woman with the beautiful face."

"She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration."