Beautiful Quotes - Page 17

We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

I know that I've been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That's a beautiful thing.

Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.

The most beautiful smile is the one for someone who isn’t there, who just popped on your mind.

To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful.