Lovely Quotes - Page 4

• Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with its yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts.

  Luis de Camoes

  Beautiful, Hair, Yellow

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• Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

  Rumi

  Faith, Kings, Lovers

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came over, bowed down, and kissed my hand. It was the most fabulous moment - such a lovely gesture. He didn't say anything.

  Helen Mirren

  Home, Winning, Hands

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 07, 2011.

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• Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

  Sophocles

  Strong, Eye, Desire

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mother, Children, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1452, Delphi Classics

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• Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!

  Thomas Merton

  Morning, Lovely Life

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Hands, Bread

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.181, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Try not to try too hard,
  It's just a lovely ride.

  James Taylor

  Trying, Hard

  "Song: 'The Secret of Life'". 1977.

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• There are no bad days in the market. When the market is down, you've got bargains, and it's lovely to think of what you are buying at low prices. When the market is up, the bargains have gone, but you're rich.

  Bruce Greenwald

  Bad Day, Thinking, Gone

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• Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

  Abraham Verghese

  Loyalty, Broken, Secret

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• Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Work, Men

  'Green Grow the Rashes' (1787)

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• I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

  John Flavel

  Christian, Thinking, Serious

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.433

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• I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Passion, Order, Ideas

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• There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.

  Derren Brown

  Kids, Being Real, Upset

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• I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.

  Gerda Weissmann Klein

  War, Loneliness, Believe

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• Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christ

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• I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… 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

  Beautiful, Meaning Something, Judging

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• That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much bother. The appropriate response when somebody demands a change in that unfair system is to listen, rather than turn away or yell, as a child might, that it's not your fault. Of course it isn't your fault. I'm sure you're lovely. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to do something about it.

  Laurie Penny

  Children, Mean, Responsibility

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• Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Spiritual, Honesty, Book

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• Apart from anything else, I got to work with Jennifer Lawrence. She’s a lovely girl. I know people often say things like that in interviews, but she really is. While she may be young, she doesn’t feel at all precocious. Instead, she’s smart and funny and terrific at connecting with people. She just blew me away.

  Julianne Moore

  Girl, Smart, People

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• There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

  Nathan Lane

  New York, Emotional, Careers

  "If there's a mouse, call Lane - Actor didn't 'paws' before taking on film" by Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 17, 1999.

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• DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

  Doris Day

  Jobs, Nice, Believe

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• Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

  Julie Walters

  Film, Stage, Exciting

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• I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

  Kate Winslet

  Mountain, Looks, Kind

  "'Labor Day' Star Kate Winslet on Defying Expectations, Onscreen and Off (Q&A)" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2013.

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