#beauty

She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer. ↗

— Kathryn Lasky

#beauty

Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#beauty

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beauty #boxer #boxing #doing #events

The only feeling that a closer intimacy has created in him for his wife is that of indulgent contempt. As there is no equality between man and woman, so there can be no respect. She is a different being. He must either look up to her as superior to himself, or down upon her as inferior. When a man does the former he is more or less in love, and love to John Ingerfield is an unknown emotion. Her beauty, her charm, her social tact--even while he makes use of them for his own purposes, he despises as the weapons of a weak nature. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#gender-stereotypes #beauty

‎'Twould be easy to say 'tis a gift, but 'twould also be an untruth. Beauty and compliments are always to be found in the truth, when not maliciously brought to light. ↗

— Sam Knight

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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

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

Form follows beauty. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#follows #form

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#because #burned #churches #culture #diversity

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. ↗

— Ovid

#deepest #enhance #highest #intensify #reality