Lovely Quotes - Page 17

• Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Desire, Natural

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.56, Imprint Academic

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• Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!"

  Giorgio Vasari

  Night, Work Out, Wife

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• The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

  Delia Smith

  Ideas, Pie, Pork

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• [T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Character, Men, Hands

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• Death devours all lovely things.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Lovely Things

  'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921).

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• Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  Focus, Needs, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Be lovely and do no harm.

  Louise Erdrich

  Harm

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• Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

  N. T. Wright

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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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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• Although still viewed as lovely and alluring by many, Winston Churchill's mother shocked society when at 46 she married a man 20 years her junior. Most malicious of the many jibes launched at her was that of one lady who went about peering into perambulators. When asked her reason, she replied, "I am searching for my future husband."

  Anne Sebba

  Mother, Husband, Men

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• Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

  George Harrison

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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• The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family.

  Sara Cox

  Thinking, Upset, Lucky

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It's a very organic kind of way that people are discovering it, by word of mouth, which I always think is the best way for things to grow. In terms of the affect it's been having on me, I don't even notice that. It's lovely to be able to talk about a piece of work that you're very proud of, that I think's a complex piece of work and not superficial and has depth to it.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, People, Depth

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

  Amy Tan

  Life, Destroyed

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• Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

  Gayle Forman

  Sacrifice, People

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• This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

  Selena Gomez

  Wind, Fairytale, Happy Endings

  Song: The Heart Wants What It Wants, Album: For You, 2014

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• I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.

  Connor Franta

  Want

  "Youtube star Connor Franta comes out as gay in tearful, emotional video" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 08, 2014.

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• Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.

  Taylor Swift

  Fall, Autumn, Pieces

  Song: All Too Well, Album: Red, 2012

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• What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

  Audrey Meadows

  Sorry, Guy, Dresses

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• But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to into a book, and isn't magic somehow involved, and surely I'm not qualified to be involved in any part of that process, and I somehow managed that tomorrow, but you mean I have to do it this morning too, well how do I even start?) withdraws quite a bit when it's already light and lovely outside when I get to my desk. So I got right past that big moment today, and into the fun slide down towards the ending, yelling whee.

  Paul Cornell

  Morning, Fun, Book

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• Even a simple imaginary exercise can change your mood: Close your eyes, and take yourself back to your last holiday where there was a lovely warm sun, beautiful sea, relaxed beach and fun meals in the evenings. Open your eyes and consider how you feel now.

  Liz Miller

  Beautiful, Beach, Fun

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• The day will bring some lovely thing.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Lovely Things

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• People really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy. It's a really lovely feeling. It's kind of scary, but a good scary. It's a lovely position to be in.

  Maisie Williams

  Crazy, People, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?

  Ronaldinho

  Laughing, Teeth

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• The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Strength, Strong

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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