beauty

".. generous display of scantily clad beauties and a carnavalesque inventiveness.. .. beautifully masked and under-dressed women, with showers of confetti, multicolored streamers. The atmosphere was on…"

"We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty."

"The sight of the intuitive and ravishing Beauty of God holds her as if asleep in its delectable bosom...This state surpasses all human definition and comparison."

"He believed in walking beautifully, elegantly. It had to work as a kind of faith that he would get to the other side. He had fallen once while training - once exactly, so he felt it couldn't happen ag…"

"Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If yo…"

"The beauty of mathematics often makes the subject matter much more attractive and easier to master."

"Surprisingly, it is not like they say: "In this or in that country", no. There are beautiful women in every country."

"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor."

"What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours…"

"With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful. His countenance, pale and gracefully reserved, was surrounded by ringlets of honey-colored hair, and with its straight nose, i…"

"... quantum mechanics is a complete, unified, coherent, and mathematically super-elegant scheme for providing us with answers to all questions that seem to have any empirical sense."

"I am constantly observing things and believe that I am coming closer to beauty. In the last few days I have discovered form and have been thinking much about it. Until now I've had no real feeling for…"

"Amma sees the whole world as a flower. Each petal represents a nation. If one petal is infested with pests, it will affect the other petals as well. The beauty of the whole flower suffers. It is the r…"

"Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth."

"The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of ferti…"

"I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in…"

"Moreover, given the unpleasant option of having to associate with either the self-satisfied beautiful or the self-pitying plain, he'd choose the former every time because beauty could sometimes transc…"

"Patience cometh by the grace of the Soul."

"In the city you can lose yourself; that's a good thing. It doesn't work in a small city. In Leeuwarden you always met yourself again and again. But in Amsterdam there is too much to do, that isn't pos…"

"Well, beauty’s in the eye of the beholder... It’s all subjective. I’m kind of shy about it, but I’ll take it."