Quotes About Beauty

Economics versus beauty, a story older than Sheba.

They compose poems to their knives.

For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

Not at all, Lady Fenring said. She turned, looking up at the tiers around them. And the Baron noted the line of her neck- a truly lovely flowing of muscles- like a young boy's.

It could be a work of art among vendettas

You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life.

Así habló Santa Alia del Cuchillo: «La Reverenda Madre debe combinar las artes de seducción de una cortesana con la intocable majestad de una diosa virgen, manteniendo estos atributos en tensión tanto tiempo como subsistan los poderes de su juventud. Pues una vez se hayan ido belleza y juventud, descubrirá que el lugar intermedio ocupado antes por la tensión se ha convertido en una fuente de astucia y de recursos infinitos.» De «Muad'Dib

Un vehemente cataclismo de colores inundó el cielo mientras el astro desaparecía tras el horizonte.

Çünkü art?k piyanolar?n olmay???na üzülüyorum bazen. Kusurluluktan kusursuzluk üretmek sanat?n en yüce formudur sonuçta.

A faint green-pearl luminescence etched the eastern horizon.

the sunset. A violent calamity of color spilled over the sky as the sun dipped beneath the horizon.

sweet sharings upon which arose something of painful beauty.

Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments.

The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

AÄŸz? bir Delphi ÅŸark?s? için tasarlanm?? Yunan tarz? kavislerden oluÅŸmuÅŸtu ama kahince heceler m?r?ldanm?yordu, sürekli açan güzel kokulu bir çiçek gibi durmaks?z?n geliÅŸen, yaÅŸamaktan hoÅŸnut biriydi.

Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

She saw and yet did not see the evening's banked colors across meadow and river. She heard and yet did not hear the

disks of ambient color tossed on an emerald freshet.

I wanted only to disappear like a jewel of trace dew caught by the morning.

Ahora el silencio era tan profundo que casi sentía el fluir de la lechosa y azulada luz de luna sobre los saguaros centinelas y los matojos espinosos.

The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines, Leto said. Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.

Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

Indeed, the young women of Arrakis were very beautiful that year. And the young men, too.