#beau

As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him. ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#beauty

He managed to make his request with the minimum of time given to speculating what she looked like naked, forgiving himself for the instant of fantasy by telling himself it was the curse of being male. In the presence of a beautiful woman, he had always experienced that knee-jerk reaction to being reduced - if only momentarily - to skin, bone, and testosterone. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#beauty

A beautiful bright blue sky; up above so high; how happy i am; to feel fully satisfied. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #science #beauty

From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators. ↗

— China Miéville

#beauty

His [Luke]letter went something like this: "Dear Mr President, Thank you for introducing me to the Hall of Famers and for showing me the Oval Office. I think if I work really hard I will have a chance for both." The next time I saw the president I told him about my son's ambitious plans. His response was beautiful: "Never get between a boy and his dreams ↗

— Tim Russert

#inspirational #tim-russert #beauty

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now. ↗

— Johnny Mercer

#beautiful #been #cos #just #look

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. ↗

— Alice Miller

#burst #even #forth #good #help

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#craftsman #finished #great #kept #love

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#everything #feel #here #just #like

We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower. from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#beauty