#sigh

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beauty #constant #constants #eternal #eternity

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#am #before #brought #come #die

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#born #glasses #got #i #i was born

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said. ↗

— Clare B. Dunkle

#insightfulness #intelligence #politeness #beauty

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#did #ever #first #hardly #light

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#ambition #behind #conscious #fiercely #i

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#art history #artist #becoming #contribution #history

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#catches #down #first #humbled #jealousy

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#before #child #first #guess #i

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#body #develop #done #effortless #goes