Graceful Quotes

208 quotes by 170 authors

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central… — Robert Graves
The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to… — Margaret Millar
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship. — Ai Weiwei
I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot… — George du Maurier
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today havenâ€™t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of… — Hal David
There is no graceful way to carry hatred. — Alice Walker
The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the… — Lafcadio Hearn
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle… — Arthur C. Clarke
Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by… — Jakob Nielsen
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just rejoicing in your being, just… — Rajneesh
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all… — William Makepeace Thackeray
A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in… — Luis de Camoes
Every natural action is graceful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous. — KT Tunstall
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully… — Bruce Cockburn
But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to… — N. T. Wright
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs… — Coco Chanel

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