Graceful Quotes
208 quotes by 170 authors
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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
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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
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I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.
— Katrina Bowden
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
— Douglas Hyde
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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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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