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beauty believe both future less people perceives radical uniqueness valuable
As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded. Tyra Banks
beauty bit creative generally great meaningful people prefer songs
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator. Irwin Thomas
beauty lofty state trust
And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.
beauty reactions remarkably social
We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is. Virginia Postrel
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I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
beauty involves meet
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world. Christo
beauty love served
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter. Wole Soyinka
beauty behavior deny handling hate women
Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Nancy Friday
beauty bodies decrepit delay fullness infuse rejoice
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
vanity larger-than-life problem
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. Bette Davis
vanity age three
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Bill Vaughan
vanity potency motive
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Bertrand Russell
vanity wish trouble
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
vanity people would-be
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.
vanity satisfaction needs
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
vanity glasses shining
Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass. William Shakespeare
vanity funeral world
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
vanity use care
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities. Charles Simmons
earth earthly eternal happiness higher individual knowledge life none object purpose serve sustained
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race. Ellen Key
earth events global means outside planet solar though threatened within
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans. Paul Johnson
earth bows narnia
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content. C. S. Lewis
earth monkeys apes
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth. Carl Sagan
earth ruins ifs
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
earth throw
That would be the stupidest thing on Earth we could do. It would throw us back into the 1970s.
earthquake half safe source
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water. Marcus Samuelsson
earthquake money plays raising surprises teaches victims
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something. Patti Smith
earth fortune
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! Petrarch