Ugly Quotes - Page 7

• Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Fun, Feels

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Selfish, Mean

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

  Bum Phillips

  Sports, Goodbye, Kissing

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• If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Girl, Hard Work

  "Dear diary: More Chuck, less gimmicks" by Bill Simmons, www.espn.com.

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• You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

  Alfred Jarry

  Tonight, Company

  Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

  William James

  Attitude, Mean, Painful

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.88, Booklassic

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Beautiful, Math

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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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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• I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

  Kiki Smith

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

  Siri Engberg, Kiki Smith, Linda Nochlin, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005). “Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005”

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• It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

  Edith Wharton

  Beautiful, Fashion, Stupid

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.81, VM eBooks

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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, Ugly Things

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• These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Compassion, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• "Mr. Churchill you're drunk!"
  Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Drinking, Drunk

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• While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

  Jim Toomey

  Cute, Beautiful, Following Your Own Path

  Jim Toomey (1999). “Poodle The Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection”, p.4, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

  Willie Rushton

  Sarcastic, Sick, Sound

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• Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial or a sorrow or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim, that is all.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Fun, Believe, Angel

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• He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Sight, Victim

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• You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Assault Weapons, People

  Fox News Channel Interview, September 15, 1997.

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• "If you're a Republican Party that's fairing poorly, sometimes you have to win ugly.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Wrestling, Winning, Sometimes

  "Alien Nation?", www.pbs.org. September 29, 2006.

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• I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to 'ripley's believe it or not' - they sent it back and said, "we don't believe it."

  Joan Rivers

  Believe, Parent, Said

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• No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind.

  John T. Flynn

  War, Black, Mind

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.122, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in each and everyone. With a girlfriend you can be sexually related, but love cannot grow. Love needs deep roots. Sexuality is possible on the surface, but sexuality is just animal, biological. It can be beautiful if it is part of a deeper love, but if it is not part of a deeper love it is the most ugly thing possible; the ugliest, because then there is no communion - you simply touch each other and separate. Only bodies meet, but not you - not I, not thou. This has happened in all relationships.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Fun

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• Long live the weeds that overwhelm
  My narrow vegetable realm!
  The bitter rock, the barren soil
  That force the son of man to toil;
  All things unholy, marred by curse,
  The ugly of the universe.

  Theodore Roethke

  Weed, Son, Men

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.39, Anchor

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• I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Spring, Eye

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• There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Men, People

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