Best Lovely Thoughts
1441 Lovely quotes by 990 unique authors
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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour
— Walter de La Mare
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The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol?…
— George Nelson
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...
— Alan Paton
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing…
— Alan Paton
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Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.
— Jenny Holzer
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The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful…
— Jenny Holzer
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Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance
— Jenny Holzer
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At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and…
— John Dewey
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and…
— Thom Yorke
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We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank,…
— George Eliot
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Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that,…
— Eric Carle
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I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
— Roddy Doyle
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A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard
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In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether,
— Ingrid Newkirk
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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or…
— Leo Buscaglia
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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country,…
— Edmund Burke
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The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
— Unknown Author
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