925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.” — Leslie Jamison

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“Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.” — Leon Battista Alberti

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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.” — Max Roach

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“I think love and beauty are what life is all about.” — John Derek

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“I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.” — Nigel Barker

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“Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?” — Anna Katharine Green

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“For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.” — Richard H. Baker

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“Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.” — Lew Wallace

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“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.” — Vera Brittain

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“For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.” — David Rittenhouse

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“Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease.” — Peter Latham

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“The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!” — Meagan Good

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“Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.” — Herbert Gold

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“But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.” — Anne Boyd

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“The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.” — Charlotte Smith

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“It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.” — Harold Hamm

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“You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.” — Guglielmo Marconi

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“Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.” — James Randolph Adams

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“The beauty of the past belongs to the past.” — Margaret Bourke-White

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“It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.” — Serge Haroche

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“I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.” — Jerry Mathers

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“Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.” — Max Bill

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“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.” — Ralph Venning

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“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.” — Marie Carmichael Stopes

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“A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.” — Clarence Stein

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