#beau

Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing to negotiate? His great enemy Cromwell always maintained that the king had been swayed at the last moment by his queen, the beautiful Henrietta Maria. We can believe Cromwell's claim that the queen told her husband to be firm. But the wicked, spiteful, altogether irresistable quote often attributed to her by Puritan writers of the time is almost certainly false. "Oh my love, if you cannot remain firm in the bedchamber, at least try to remain firm with your subjects! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#impotence #beauty

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. ↗

— Olivia Newton-John

#beautiful #beautiful thing #because #better #creator

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#body #bones #book #buildings #built

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#another #back #beautiful #collectively #community

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's ALL that counts. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#counts #pal

People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#beautiful place #day #destroying #dump #enhance

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#beautiful #beautiful girl #botox #forget #girl

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#beauty #better #even #feminine #follows

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#beautiful #complete #context #faith #good

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#anything #beauty #creativity #curved #line