Acceptance Quote by Ouida

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

— Albert Camus

I certainly had no natural ability as a cyclist!

— Chris Hoy

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that…

— Charles Dudley Warner

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

— Herman Melville

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine…

— J. B. Jackson

“The norms of femininity suppress the body potential of women. We grow up learning that the feminine body is soft, not muscular, passive, incapable,…

— Iris Young

“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for men who,…

— J.D. Salinger

Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as…

— Annie Dillard

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

— Shirley Hazzard

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends…

— Lance Armstrong