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Quotes About Beauty

Because the practice of writing is, then, a laying down of flowers upon flowers, it may be regarded as an exteriorization of what the imagining mind does, and of what it was doing long before it invented this external form of itself.
~ Elaine Scarry
the Rev. Paul Ford climbed the hill and entered the Pendleton Woods, hoping that the hushed beauty of God's out-of-doors would still teh tumult that His children of men had wrought.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
thank you. I love to fix people's hair, exulted
~ Eleanor H. Porter
Porque hubo un tiempo en el que yo también estuve en un valle verde y luminoso, fácil a la mano.
~ Elena Garro
Iba sin pintar, con los cabellos muy cepillados y los labios
~ Elena Garro
las chicharras eran las únicas que agradecían al sol que llegara a la mitad del cielo. Nadie miraba las lagartijas tornasoles
~ Elena Garro
Usted conoce México? Pues Gabriel es como México, lleno de montañas y de valles inmensos… Siempre hay sol y los árboles no cambian de hojas sino de verdes…
~ Elena Garro
Y el «Jarabe» llenó las copas de los arboles, avanzó alegre por el corredor y subió por los aires hasta el cielo.
~ Elena Garro
La tierra de los jardines estaba pareja y las plantas, intactas.
~ Elena Garro
Gli occhi molto belli sono insostenibili, bisogna guardarli sempre, ci si affoga dentro, ci si perde, non si sa più dove si è
~ Elias Canetti
WyobraziÅ' sobie Å›lady swoich palców na jej pyzatym, tÅ'ustym, lÅ›niÄ…cym policzku. Ale z jakiej racji jeden policzek miaÅ'by by? uprzywilejowany. Nale?aÅ'oby bi? obiema rÄ™kami naraz. JeÅ›li nie utrafi, czerwone prÄ™gi bÄ™dÄ… z jednej strony wy?ej, z drugiej ni?ej. To byÅ'oby brzydkie. Studium chiÅ"skiej sztuki wyrobiÅ'o w nim namiÄ™tne zamiÅ'owanie do symetrii.
~ Elias Canetti
Un seul beau son est plus beau qu'un long parler.
~ Elias Canetti
All this under a magnificent blue sky.
~ Elie Wiesel
You walk out in the evening with a woman, you tell her that she is beautiful and you love her, and twenty centuries hear what you are saying.
~ Elie Wiesel
Vanitas vanitatum: elective surgery, in other words.
~ Elinor Lipman
I could stare at this forever: swirling stars in the background and a human being, a real live human, lost in a task.
~ Eliot Schrefer
Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
~ Elisabeth Bronfen
You can create a climate for him according to your attitude, and this is part of your job as a wife. The home you make and the atmosphere of that home is the world he comes back to from the world of his work. Let it be a place of beauty and peace.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Eve's daughters are as flowers and none can ever say they are through unfolding. And what man can predict the consummate end of such a life when its ultimate center is Sharon's Rose?
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Señor Jaime," said little Moquetin, a bright-eyed imp of six, "why is it that your face is always red?" Jim countered, "Why is it that your face is always brown?" "Because it is much prettier that way," was the unexpected reply.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
La muerte es sólo un paso más hacia la forma de vida en otra frecuencia» y «El instante de la muerte es una experiencia única, bella, liberadora, que se vive sin temor y sin angustia».
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The sun was shining, and there, right there on the side of the road, was a flower stand, a homemade wooden table covered with painted tins of lupine and cream-colored roses. For a few minutes on that sun-drenched road, I believed that God might be working her magic.
~ Elizabeth Benedict
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
~ Elizabeth Berg