Beauty Quotes

I saw a woman who physically and spiritually blocked out the definition of being celestial, and replaced it with her own divine beauty. She was transcendent. She was beyond astonishing in her presence. But what she truly did, which was beyond the scope of an average woman's power, was step above the barriers of reality and illusion with her pure, majestic, and omnipotent beauty.

Lionel Suggs

Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.

Marilyn Waring

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul -His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

Farid Attar

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constiture part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

Joseph Silk

Her religious poetry was surprisingly slender, and as I was eager to know more about her religion, I asked her about this aspect of her poetry. She replied with these lines from Keats' Ode to a Grecian Urn: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'--that is all Ye know on eath, and all ye need to know'. Do not ask me to immortalise the great Mystery of Life. I am just a humble worker. For beauty, look to the Pslams, to Isaiah, to St. John of the Cross. How could my poor pen scan such verse? For truth, look to the Gospels-- four short accounts of God made Man. There is nothing more to say.

Jennifer Worth

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

William Goldman

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

Libba Bray

I always find beauty in things that are odd

Marc Jacobs

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Criss Jami

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

Naomi Wolf

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Scott Westerfeld

I DID NOT say Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and get yourself together.

Elizabeth Taylor

Beautiful is not something you become. It's something you already are.

Peter Mis

What is the secret behind the emotional effect of great works of painting? What laws govern their beauty? Delacroix said that being a feast for the eyes is the prime merit of a good painting. I seek the timeless, the quintessential in painting.

Stefan Szczesny

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

Jean Sibelius

For being so ugly, I think God should reward me handsomely.

Jarod Kintz

The better you look, the more you see.

Bret Easton Ellis

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Howard Zinn