Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?
Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.
I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair. '
A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.
I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street,. . . and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!
Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.
Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.
People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.
You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.
Every moment in your life is unique. You will never have two alike. . . Never. This is the science of living: When you begin to appreciate every moment. To have a heart so open, an understanding so beautiful, and a yearning for appreciation so complete that when that moment comes. . . . you see exactly what it is.
Beautiful things spoil nothing.
We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.
All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.
More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect. I seem to be on a mission, but I don't want the next generation, your daughters and mine, growing up thinking that you have to be thin to look beautiful in certain clothes. It's terrifying right now. It's out of control. It's beyond out of control.
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.
Seth laughed when he saw me. “Hey,” I said, poking him with my foot, “be nice. ” “I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen you look anything less than…” He paused, playing with word choice. “Well-planned. ” “Why, you silver-tongued romantic devil. That is the look I usually go for. Other women go for sexy or chic or beautiful. But me? Well-planned all the way. ” “You know what I mean. Besides, unplanned isn’t a bad look for you. Not bad at all. ” His voice sounded deliciously low and dangerous, and something ignited between us as we held each other’s eyes.