Ugly Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

  Mike Curran

  Beautiful, Art, Kitsch

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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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• 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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• You know you're ugly when you go to the proctologist and he sticks his finger in your mouth.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mouths, Sticks, Fingers

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

  Robert Quine

  Funny, Song, Stones

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• I know enough about the moon to know how unpleasant and inhospitable it is. . . . I know enough about Mars to know that you can't live there, you can't settle it. Mars and the moon are two ugly islands. So then, you say, what's the point of going to them? The point is to be able to say I've been there, I've set foot on them, and I can go further to look for beautiful islands.

  Wally Schirra

  Beautiful, Moon, Islands

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• [Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

  Janet Malcolm

  Disappointment, Eye, Wrinkles

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• Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, People, Racist

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• In a lot of teen movies nowadays, you just get the rote six stereotypes like the jock, the cool guy, the nerd, the hot girl, the girl who cares, and the girl who has glasses and is supposed to be ugly but is actually beautiful.

  Penn Dayton Badgley

  Beautiful, Girl, Glasses

  Source: collider.com

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• I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, People, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Stars, Mean, Angel

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• Girls say it's hard to find nice guys. It's actually really easy. It's just all nice guys are ugly.

  Daniel Tosh

  Girl, Nice, Guy

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• Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

  Paola Antonelli

  Design, Conscious, Should

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• My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a father/son games. Pin the blame on me, rock, paper, get me another beer, casino night.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Father, Beer

  "The Reconciliation". "Titus" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• People found me ugly and weird looking. All those years of that whole insecurity thing just makes you feel horrible then really slowly you start to think if they can make me look nice in the picture then it's not that bad.

  Lara Stone

  Nice, Thinking, Years

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• 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

  Ugly Things, Mexican, Racist

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• You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Beautiful

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• Liberals go straight to ugly racist stereotypes when attacking conservative blacks, calling them oversexualized, stupid and/or incompetent.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Racist, Calling

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• By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

  William Dean Howells

  Art, Mean, Courses

  William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1958). “Howells and James: a double billing. Novel-writing and novel-reading; an impersonal explanation”

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• People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hate, People, Faces

  "Richard Dawkins’ Hate Mail". Interview with Rowan Hooper, www.slate.com. December 28, 2013.

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