Beautiful Things Quotes - Page 26

• We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.

  Ellen G. White

  Beautiful, Teaching, Character

  Ellen G. White (1963). “Medical Ministry”, p.94, Pacific Press Publishing

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• From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'

  Charlize Theron

  Beautiful, Mom, Dog

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• How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

  Max Muller

  Beautiful, Thinking, May

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

  Dave Koz

  Beautiful, Rap, Rocks

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.

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• Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

  Antony Gormley

  Beautiful, Art, Everyday

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• I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Beautiful, Thinking, Humanity

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Heartbreak is essential. We grow, evolve, and learn about the most beautiful thing ever: Love! My first heartbreak taught me that love is supposed to ADD beauty and happiness to my already love-filled life!

  Zulay Henao

  Beautiful, Love Is, Essentials

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beautiful, Reality, Ideas

  "Fictional character: Radio Lecturer". "Day & Night", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

  Max Azria

  Beautiful, Country, Diversity

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• But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Evil, Way

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• To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

  Erin Wasson

  Beautiful, Creativity, Clothes

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• Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Brother, Foolish

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Toxic

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Art, Passion

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.

  Tucker Viemeister

  Beautiful, Teacher, Men

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• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Book, Mean

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Children, Distance

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• I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

  Andrew Motion

  Beautiful, Buying, Painting

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• The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, What Matters, Clarity

  "Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery". www.nytimes.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hurt, Animal

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, University of Virginia Press

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• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  Wallace Stevens

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Travel

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.249, Vintage

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• I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Disappointment

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• The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Adventure

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Great Lives: David: A Man of Passion and Destiny”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Beautiful, Sex

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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