Beautiful Quotes

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able… — Alexis Arguello
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right… — Chinua Achebe
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto… — Saint Augustine
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made… — Marcus Aurelius
Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over… — Paul Auster
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of… — Dan Aykroyd
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by… — Erykah Badu
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who… — Erykah Badu
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey
I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams

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