Graceful Quotes

208 quotes by 170 authors

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of… — Marquis de Custine
I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful… — Mary McCormack
I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person. — Katrina Bowden
Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it… — Gina Carano
I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights,… — Jake Pavelka
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form. — E. M. Forster
We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention… — Sue Thoele
I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt… — Lynn Andrews
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the… — Leigh Hunt
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free… — Henry Fuseli
Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. — Douglas Hyde
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is… — Rosellen Brown
Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations… — Criss Jami
The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit… — Tryon Edwards
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by… — Gore Vidal
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -… — Ellen Goodman
Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes. — Judith Martin
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. — Malcolm Muggeridge
People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV. — Rachel Nichols

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