#be

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#death #desirable #even #frequently #human

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time. ↗

— Fred Upton

#every #every time #i #know #me

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humor #the-patriotic-murders #beauty

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#ugliness #beauty

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#filmmaker #i #i think #kind #opportunity

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#been #excluded #myth #national #population

Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#illium #reporters #beauty

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#poetry #sea #supernatural #beauty

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#hope #new-beginnings #new-day #time #beauty