Beauty Quotes - Page 17

• Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.

  Amy Adams

  Baby, Swimsuits, Looks

  "Amy Adams: 'I'm Trying to Be More Present in Each Moment of My Life'" by Robert Moritz, parade.com. December 19, 2010.

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• Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.

  Hubert de Givenchy

  Hair, Style, Finals

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• Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Sublime, Literature, Attractive

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• O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Art, Should

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Niece, Creativity

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• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Apathy, Satisfaction, Foolish

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• When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

  Bernard Berenson

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Redemption

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

  James Caan

  Party, Guy, Brain

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Beautiful, Girl, Mother

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• Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

  Alicia Machado

  Mind, Lasts, Imperfect

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• One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Funny, Humor, Evening

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

  Laetitia Casta

  Real, Feel Good, Being True

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• I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Strong, Feet, Giving

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• If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Funny, Motivational, Learning

  "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Color, Ugly Things

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• I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Mean, Decision, Special

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.132, Penguin

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• Beauty is its own excuse.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Excuse

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.112

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• I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Struggle, Body Weight, Proud

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• Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Love, Hope, Philosophy

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• Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful

  John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

  Wes Bentley

  Heart, Caves, World

  "Fictional character: Ricky Fitts". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

  Homer

  Rare Beauty, Youth

  Homer (1822). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.163

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• The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

  Vanna Bonta

  Reflection, Deep Thought, Beautiful You

  "Rewards of Passion, Sheer Poetry (The Beauty)". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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