Beautiful Things Quotes - Page 20

• Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

  Justin Sane

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Technology

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• Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

  Seth Godin

  Beautiful, Brave, Culture

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• The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Criticism, Pleasure

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• Beautiful things make people happy.

  Eva Zeisel

  Beautiful, People, Making People Happy

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• The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

  Chris Moneymaker

  Beautiful, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 07, 2005.

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• I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Beautiful, Country, Artist

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• Some things just couldn't be protected from the storm. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once the old things were broken off, amazingly beautiful things grow in their place.

  Harriet Morgan

  Funny, Beautiful, Old Things

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• Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

  James Fenton

  Beautiful, Lyric Poetry, Musical

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• I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Beautiful, Yoga, Thinking

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• For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

  Paul Goldberger

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

  "The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The beautiful thing about calling out to your Lord is that you don't always have to put your feelings into words

  Bilal Philips

  Beautiful, Feelings, Calling

  FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from Jan 23, 2015

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• There is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean

  Laetitia Casta

  Beautiful, Looks, Green

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• So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Life, Beautiful, Dark

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• It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter. . . The offerings of creation. . . our glimpses of truth.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Beautiful, Laughter, Reality

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Beautiful, Ocean, Passion

  "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

  Steven Levy

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas

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• Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Years, People

  "Paul Auster Meditates On Life, Death And Near Misses". Interview with Terry Gross, nwpr.org. August 23, 2012.

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• The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

  Francois Truffaut

  Beautiful, Light, Theatre

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• Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

  Coco Chanel

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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• You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.

  Leah Chase

  Beautiful, Live Life, Enjoy

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• I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

  Paula Poundstone

  Beautiful, Memories, Talking

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• Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Beautiful, Hammers

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

  James Frey

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

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• Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Beautiful, Running, People

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• But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail

  Tricia Goyer

  Beautiful, Flower, Soul

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Dec 02, 2014

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