Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty—stupid me for going along with it.

A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from the nearest sea, I am taken aback by the sight of a purple...

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Women are mere “beauties” in men’s culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable. A beautiful heroine is a contradiction...

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Una rosa se despertó en su sangre y ensombreció sus mejillas. Un agitado aliento separó los pétalos de sus labios, que temblaron. Sobre ella sopló algún viento sur de pasión y movió los delicados pliegos...

Look at me–a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

I may want to sleep with Miss America, but I have no wish to hear her talk about herself and her family.

I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence...

The beautiful is as useful as the useful.” He added after a moment’s silence, “Perhaps more so.

That’s why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn’t want money because money was power; she wanted it because she’d been poor, and money cures poverty. […]...

Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think.We deny our own beauty because others can’t or won’t recognize it....

I linger near Galileo’s telescopes, then round the corner and stand transfixed: I did not expect this- a dark, cool room full of globes of the night sky from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries....

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster–the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in...

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

a beautiful liar wears a beautiful smile☺

Little sister don’t you worry about a thing todayTake the heat from the sunLittle sisterI know that everything is not okBut you’re like honey on my tongueTrue love never can be rentBut only true love...

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.

The beauty of inspiration is its unpredictable timing.

Logan looked at her and wondered how someone so beautiful could be so oblivious to their own beauty, how someone so smart could be so foolish to the extent of their own intellect and how...

She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.

Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I don’t want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?It’s something relative to the past...

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood …

…the way a bubble will float along gracefully and let every colour shine from within it until it suddenly bursts and is never to be seen again. Maybe that is the beauty of beauty. It...

Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.

Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you – yourself.

Eat beautiful foods, which are nutritionally dense, wholesome and natural.

I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief… I’m not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable...

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man

No, no, let us think with consideration, and consider with acknowledging, and acknowledge with admiration, and admire with love, and love with joy in the midst of all woes ; let us in such sort...

I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.

There’s nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There’s nothing stronger than vulnerability. There’s no better time than now.

True beauty is found in the heart of the soul.

Oh little Poupchette, some may tell you that you are nobody’s child, a child of defilement, a child begotten in fear and horror. Some may tell you that you are a child of abomination conceived...

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

For Sayonara, literally translated, ‘Since it must be so,’ of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the Auf Wiedershens and Au revoirs, it does not try to cheat itself by...

The beauty of the human race is not in its victory over evil, but the attempt.

I want to know, for example, why beauty exists,” she said, “why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire...

Sometimes you have to look past a person’s mistakes to see God’s presence.

She emerged from the shadows like an apparition, and he was taken aback by her beauty. Never in his wildest dreams had he expected to chance upon such a vision of loveliness in those harsh...

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the...

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn’t be able to protect them from self-disgust.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music,...