Beautiful Things Quotes - Page 6

• When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Believe, Past

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Expectations

  "Janelle Monae Talks New CoverGirl Gig, Signature Style And Being Fearlessly Beautiful". Interview With Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

  Elaine Scarry

  Beautiful, Balance, World

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

  Alyssa Milano

  Beautiful, Baseball, Thinking

  "Alyssa Milano debuts clothing line". Interview with Mark Newman, April 12, 2007.

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• We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Dog, Men

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

  Justina Chen

  Beautiful, Sunset, Lakes

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• Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Things Change, Being Human

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• When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.

  David Sedaris

  Beautiful, Baby, Rain

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• Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone?" "Because you're beautiful," Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. "People always think they can own beautiful things.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Thinking, Fire

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.263, Delacorte Press

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• Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

  David Blaine

  Beautiful, Creating, Magic

  Time Out Interview with Brett Martin, April 1, 1999.

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• Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me." "Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Cutting, Light

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• You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Unique, Grasshoppers

  Libba Bray (2003). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.416, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Beautiful, Real, Stupid

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• All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

  Patrick McCabe

  Beautiful, Lying, World

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• A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

  Jim Lefebvre

  Beautiful, Sports, Baseball

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• If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

  Ellis Peters

  Beautiful, Running, Thinking

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.14, Head of Zeus

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• Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Father, Intelligent

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.144, Faber & Faber

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• I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Powerful, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Mean, Dying

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• Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Nerd, Hilarity

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound - the most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat....I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen...It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.

  Jojo Moyes

  Beautiful, Hair, Skins

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• it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.

  Nalini Singh

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Home

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.17, Penguin

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• Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Beautiful, Snow, Rose

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

  Mary Roach

  Beautiful, Thinking, Skeletons

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• She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Animal, Matter

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.459, Scholastic Inc.

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