#beauty

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother's judgment, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking suspicion that a just Providence, seeing the DeVanes so well endowed with physical beauty, had determined that there was no reason to spoil the work by adding intelligence to the mix. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#humor #lord-john #beauty

I had a dream about you last night... you were crying over spilt ink screaming "the words, the what could have been beautiful words. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

While appreciating the beauty around her, Eden considered the darkness that lay ahead. ↗

— Linda Lee Chaikin

#beauty

And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven. ↗

— Bryce Courtenay

#nature #beauty

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#brought #daughter #great #greatly #into

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#appears #beauty #considered #demanding #far

For what was your gesture? An act of pure love for Jesus particularly. It was an act so completely focused upon the Christ that not a dram of worldly benefit was gained thereby. Nothing could justify the spillage of some three hundred days' wages, except love alone. [...] The disciples, in fact, were offended by an act that produced nothing, accomplished nothing, fed no poor, served no need. They reproached you as a wastrel. They were offended by the absurd, an act devoted absolutely to love, to love alone. But Jesus called it 'beautiful. ↗

— Walter Wangerin Jr.

#the-passion #beauty

The moon was through to the sunset side of the gap, but its light was hardly noticeable on the earth for the ruddy brilliance of the firelight. ↗

— William Golding

#beauty

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#beauty #hostile #nature #unpredictable #wonder

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