#tract

It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#humor #beauty

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be. ↗

— Teresa Lo

#beauty #evil #handsome #lust #sex

Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away and went on reading. Julie, however, was not flattering her friend: indeed, the princess's eyes, large, deep, and luminous (sometimes it was as if rays of light came from them in sheaves), were so beautiful that very often, despite the unattractiveness of the whole face, those eyes were more attractive than beauty. But the princess had never seen the good expression of thise eyes, the expression they had in moments when she was not thinking of herself. As with all people, the moment she looked in the mirror, her face assumed a strained, unnatural, bad expression. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#ugliness #unattractiveness #beauty

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#always #down-to-earth #i #simple #simple way

We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#british #british people #contract #enabling #ensure

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#companies #contracts #federal #get #hire

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

#contract #enlarge #faculty #fancy #far

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ↗

— Og Mandino

#constantly #graces #i #improve #manners

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#antagonism #between #divided #division #exploited

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract