Quotes About Beauty

Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making.

The most important development in the field since Meehl's original work is Robyn Dawes's famous article "The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making.

Žena je imala tanane, prili?no izvijene obrve. Haljina joj je otkrivala le?a i Gaus se pitao kako bi bilo pritisnuti usne na njih.

In der mittelalterlichen Kunst entspricht das Aussehen der Menschen ihren Seelen: die Bösen hässlich, die Guten schön. Das neunzehnte Jahrhundert hat uns beigebracht, das sei Unsinn. Aber mit ein bisschen Lebenserfahrung merkt man, es ist gar nicht so falsch.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

sunt lacrimae rerum, "There are tears in things.

beauty and pleasure are at the center of teaching. For the best teacher is the one who wants you to find meaning in the things that have given him pleasure, too, so that the appreciation of their beauty will outlive him. In this way—because it arises from an acceptance of the inevitability of death—good teaching is like good parenting.

Today I will just observe and listen." • "Today I will trust that everything will work out well." • "Today I will accept things as they are." • "Today I will be aware of the beauty all around me." I recommend affirmations

3 East 84th still looks both fitting and fresh. It also looks familiar: the limestone

À chaque rencontre, on constate qu'une vie s'est épanouie, aussi imprévisible que la forme d'un nuage

The thing about Laurel and Hardy movies that you can't get from the chopped-up versions on television is how beautiful they are. Things happen exactly at the moment they have to happen. They don't happen a second too soon or too late. You can even predict what's going to happen—and it does happen—and it surprises you anyway. It doesn't surprise you because it happened, but because it happened so perfectly.

It was mad and it was beautiful.

My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

Schubert's String Quartet in D Minor

It is said that travelers who approach Geneva by train from Zurich are frequently so overcome by its beauty that they hurl their return tickets out of the window and vow never to leave.

But that's the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn't have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world devoid of numbers. Every snowflake, unique as every number, tells us something about complexity. Perhaps that is why we will never tire of its wonder.

Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.

He was almost twenty and Ree knew most girls would call him handsome or dreamy or some such. Sandy hair, blue eyes, put together strong, with bright teeth and one of those smiles.

The bodies draped down through the leaves like rancid baubles in the locks of a horrible harlot.