Ugly Things Quotes - Page 2

• I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to call someone. That's like being called a Mexican.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Mexican, Racist, Harsh

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• A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

  Edward Albee

  Confused, Trying, Different

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

  Matthew Weiner

  Ambition, People, Satisfying

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• I am going to work with people who hold similar views to me inside Congress, outside of Congress to make certain that we come together to stop Trump from doing some of the very ugly things that he has talked about doing.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, People, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

  John Constable

  Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude

  Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

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• His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

  Jack Kerouac

  Bulls, Lines, Said

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

  Dean Young

  Rain, Taken, Clouds

  Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books

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• Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Men, Ducks

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Denial is an ugly thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Denial, Ugly

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour every day to sit silently doing nothing, utterly unoccupied, just watching whatsoever passes by inside. In the beginning you will be very sad, looking at things inside you; you will feel only darkness and nothing else, and ugly things and all kinds of black holes appearing. You will feel agony, no ecstasy at all. But if you persist, persevere, the day comes when all these agonies disappear, and behind the agonies is the ecstasy.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Agony, Meditation

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• I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

  Saul Bass

  Beautiful, Design, Care

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• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Strive

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• Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

  Democritus

  Beautiful, Effort, Toil

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

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• When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Sex, Mind

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• A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

  Keith Ablow

  Husband, Jealous, Ugly

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• People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, People, Quality

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dark, Long, Tiny

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

  Harper Lee

  Son, Wish, Ems

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Thoughts on parliamentary reform. Recent writers on reform. Bain's psychology. A few words on non-intervention. The contest in America. Austin on jurisprudence. Plato”, p.204

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• She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Beautiful, Heart, Perfection

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• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Hate, Dark

  "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.

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• I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can’t see what I used to be.

  Daniel Handler

  Smart, Stupid, Thinking

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.196, Egmont UK

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• An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Stupid, People

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing"... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'.

  Robbie Williams

  Stars, Sleep, Mets

  "Robbie Quotes". www.bbc.co.uk. September 24, 2014.

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• I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Liars, Character, People

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.149, Atlantic Books Ltd

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