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Quotes About Beauty

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
~ Pearl Cleage
Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.
~ Pearl Cleage
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day, looks a lot like love when you catch it in the moonlight.
~ Pearl Cleage
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
~ Pearl S. Buck
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
~ Unknown
Woman, the sweetest name That man can breathe, or flattering language frame, Who art thou?
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Thee I do not look on, no, For, alas! it is of moment, That he must not see thy beauty Who is pledged to see thy honour.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Hermosa compostura de esa varia inferior arquitectura, que entre sombras y lejos a esta celeste usurpas los reflejos, cuando con flores bellas el número compite a sus estrellas, siendo con resplandores humano cielo de caducas flores.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
No es breve luz aquella caduca exhalación, pálida estrella, que en trémulos desmayos pulsando ardores y latiendo rayos, hace más tenebrosa la obscura habitación con luz dudosa?
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Nace el ave, y con las galas que le dan belleza suma, apenas es flor de pluma, o ramillete con alas, cuando las etéreas salas corta con velocidad, negándose a la piedad del nido que dejan en calma; ¿y teniendo yo más alma, tengo menos libertad?
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
You hear the bird's gurgling? Which pleasure! which charm! The field has by me a thousand charms.
~ Unknown
Ya pues, a ver, una risita, le pedía el mocoso hermoso como una esmeralda marina. A ver, un puchero, le decía con esa boca de fresa, conquistándola otra vez con sus niñerías de cachorro.
~ Unknown
Porque eres y serás para mi alma un día de sol, eso eres tú.
~ Unknown
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
~ Peggy Orenstein
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.
~ Peggy Orenstein
She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.
~ Unknown
Too bad all that beautiful cleavage had to be wasted on a man-eating floozy.
~ Unknown
Not that he was any expert on the subject, but Matt believed he could tell a lot about a woman by observing the way she watched a sunset.
~ Unknown
If you've never seen a steel magnolia on the warpath, you've missed one of the world's greatest wonders.
~ Unknown
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.
~ Penelope Gilliatt
But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
~ Penn Jillette
When you see through a defense mechanism, you don't stop at the intimidating behavior but go right on into the underlying misperception about life and through that to the path back to harmony. When you see through people's fear-based actions, motives, and secrets, you're really aiming for their sweet vulnerability, inner beauty, and magnificence—and you find their soul.
~ Penney Peirce
Ace had built a small fire and was sitting with his forearms draped over his upraised knees. He must have sensed her presence because he glanced over his shoulder with a sharp jerk of his head. In profile, he was the image of hidden power and fierce beauty. She realized that he must have bathed in the chilly waters of the creek, because
~ Unknown