Ugly Quotes - Page 13

• Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Beautiful, Jobs, People

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• I'd like the kind of love that lasts forever.It doesn't matter if it's plain,it doesn't matter if it's ugly.It just has to be there.

  Mike Gayle

  Forever, Matter, Lasts

  Mike Gayle (2002). “My Legendary Girlfriend”, p.276, Broadway Books

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• You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they're young, when they grow up they'll see the real world and say, 'Why is the world so ugly?! I remember when the world was beautiful.' And then they'll fight, and they'll have a revolution. They'll fight against all of our corruption in the world, they'll fight to try to make the world more beautiful. That's the job of a good children's book illustrator.

  Tony Millionaire

  Beautiful, Jobs, Children

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• Half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m funny-looking and ugly. The other half 
of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m fascinating. Everything neutralises

  FKA twigs

  Thinking, People, Half

  "FKA twigs: future shock" by Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. June 19, 2014.

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• A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

  Paul Dirac

  Data, Fit, Mathematical Beauty

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• Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thinking, Life Is, Contradictory

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• Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring. The grace of God is preposterous enough to accept as beautiful a coloring that anyone else would reject as ugly. The grace of God sees beyond the scribbling to the heart of the scribbler - a scribbler who is similar to two thieves who hung on crosses on either side of Jesus. One of the two asked Jesus to please accept his scribbled and sloppy life into the kingdom of God and He did. Preposterous. And very good news for the rest of us scribblers.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Beautiful, Jesus, Heart

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• If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

  Matt Haig

  Thinking, Looks, Harder

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.

  Brian Molko

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

  Jenna Marbles

  Optical Illusions, Cures, Humans

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• But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.

  Jamais Cascio

  Running, People, Decision

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• Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

  Alvin Langdon Coburn

  Photography, Beauty Everywhere, Ordinary

  Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

  Nova Ren Suma

  Boys, Assuming, Pretty Boy

  Nova Ren Suma (2011). “Imaginary Girls”, p.88, Penguin

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• Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Thinking, May

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• Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.

  Sonia Choquette

  Mistake, Mean, Forgiving

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• More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

  William Lashner

  Wish, Care, Eccentric

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• Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted,
  spite of ugly looks and threats,
  And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Art, Nursing, Sight

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.85

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• I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.

  Henri Nouwen

  Grateful, Eye, Heart

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.80, Image

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• In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body. To be more precise, they derive their identity from the I-thought that they erroneously attach to the mental image or concept of their body.
  Equating the physical sense-perceived body that is destined to grow old, wither and die with 'I' always leads to suffering sooner or later.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, People, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.50, Penguin

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Positive Attitude, Good Attitude

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.150, Penguin

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• So when somebody asks me to make a decision about a situation, I don't offer a solution, I ask a question: What are our options? Give me the good, give me the bad, give me the pretty, give me the ugly, give me the impossible, give me the possible, give me the convenient, give me the inconvenient. Give me the options. All I want are options. And once I have all the options before me, then I comfortably and confidently make my decision.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Decision, Want

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• When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

  Jean Genet

  Beautiful, Existentialism, Moments

  Jean Genet (1987). “Querelle”, p.46, Grove Press

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• It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.

  Chris Adrian

  Children, Heart, Medicine

  Chris Adrian (2011). “The Great Night: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

  August Strindberg

  Beautiful, Evil, Weak

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.

  Jesse D. Jennings

  Simple, Love Is, Self

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