Lovely Quotes - Page 33

• It would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.

  Casey Legler

  Judging, Dresses, Would Be

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• Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

  Walter de La Mare

  Looks, Slumber, Lasts

  Motley and Other Poems (1918) "Fare Well"

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• The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Fire, Glasses

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• What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol? What is its name? Its name is Junk. Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape.

  George Nelson

  Years, Civilization, Names

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• Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Jobs, Mind

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.26, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Cry The Beloved Country, Hills

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Singing, Rolling

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.

  Jenny Holzer

  Chance, Turns

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• The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

  Jenny Holzer

  Yield, Awful, Attention

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance

  Jenny Holzer

  Chance, Turns

  Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

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• Love, you are eternal like springtime.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Love, Springtime, Eternal

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• At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Reading, Character, Blue

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• Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Venice, Shadow

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• When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious

  John Dewey

  Children, School, Self

  John Dewey (2013). “The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum”, p.29, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.

  Thom Yorke

  Morning, Cat, Men

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• We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Heart, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.172, Convergent Books

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• I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

  Roddy Doyle

  Men, Age, Sound

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• In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Pet, Would Be

  "Newsday" Newspaper, February 21, 1988.

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• It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Women, People, Twenties

  "Early Success" (1937)

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• She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Twenties, Seven

  "Early Success" (1937)

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• There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Mind, Would Be

  Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

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• The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

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• Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
  So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Two, Berries

  William Shakespeare (1796). “The Plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.30

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• Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

  Sara Teasdale

  Kings, Memories, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”

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• Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Attitude, Inspiration, Heart

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