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“What we celebrate today is not a victory of party or of individuals. What we celebrate is a beginning as well as an end; a change as well as a restoration. A beginning to end poverty, and misery; a beginning to end ignorance and hopelessness; and a beginning to restore all that is good, beautiful and sublime in our lives as one people under God.”
Bukola Saraki (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think a woman who's confident, who's aware of her own abilities and her own limitations and who accepts gracefully failure as part of her life. All this combination makes a beautiful woman.”
Mallika Sherawat (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't like girls who wear lots of make-up and you can't see their face. Some girls are beautiful but insecure and look much better without the make-up, but decide to put loads on. I like girls with nice eyes and a nice smile.”
Justin Bieber (born 1994) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in MTV Justin Bieber: "Girls Look Better Without Make-Up", April 2010
“Four beautiful maids Were all in love with me. They said that I could have but one So I went off to sea.”
Alexander Knox (1907–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“David in his psalms, Solomon in his songs and proverbs, the Prophets in the sublime outpourings of their awful inspiration, and Christ in his parables, those most beautiful and perfect of all allegories, luxuriate in signs and similes drawn from the fair trees of the East.”
William Howitt (1792–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God,one of which was you.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A fresh river in a beautiful meadow Imagined in his mind The good Painter, who would some day paint it”
Jeff VanderMeer (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.”
Ashot Nadanian (born 1972) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: S'pore Chess News, 7 September 2010
“The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.”
Ashot Nadanian (born 1972) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article at chessville.com, 31 October 2010
“The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.|”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can either be monsters or angels. We are able to be demons and angels, as that book says. We are able to be incredibly creative or to be incredibly destructive. We have that decision to make, to create something. It could be grotesque and ugly, but it is monstrously beautiful, so it inspires people.”
Julie Taymor (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Already into the last week of October! The dying fall holds only loneliness. In the garden the chrysanthemums bloom, beautiful, peaceful, as they did a year ago, but the autumn leaves, falling one by one, only make me sad.”
Park Chung-hee (1917–1979) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (October 1974), as quoted in The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History Revised and Updated (2001), by Don Oberdorfer, p. 55.
“It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview, H Monthly (10 February 2009).
“[On meditation] ...that's the single most important thing that I do...there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Better Nutrition magazine (March 2004).
“The more affluent areas, by and large, are afforded these big, beautiful, spectacular buildings, and then the poorer neighborhoods are just disintegrating. And there’s this imbalance, obviously, of power and resources.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Jian Gomeshi, CBC Radio Q (16 February 2011).
“Man is the greatest being endowed with independence, creativity and consciousness and, at the same time, a beautiful creature who champions justice. Man, by nature, aspires to virtue and ennobling qualities and detests all that is evil and dirty. These unique features constitute his human traits.”
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.”
Xi Jinping (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Xi Jinping meets model workers" in cctv.com English (1 May 2013).
“Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.”
Amy Lee (born 1981) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Explaining her song "Call Me When You're Sober" in "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs" at VH1 News (18 September 2006)
“The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes.”
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was supposed to wear this really great costume [on Il Brigante], beautiful white flannel trousers, a captain's cap, it looked marvellous, but right before shooting they had it changed and they told me to wear my own stuff instead. I felt rotten because it looked so cheap.”
Donald O'Brien (actor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.”
Ben Klassen (1918–1993) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: White Man's Bible (1983)
“I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.”
Luis Miguel (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Surprisingly, it is not like they say: "In this or in that country", no. There are beautiful women in every country.”
Luis Miguel (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. … A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.”
“The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1917) as quoted by , The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: the Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (1986)
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Canterville Ghost (1887)
“Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, I love London society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.”
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Use of Life (1894), ch. VI: National Education
“He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence (1931)
“My second wife was beautiful, but lacked real passion. I recall once, while we were making love, a curious optical illusion occurred and for a split second it almost looked as though she was moving.”
Woody Allen (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Harry: The most beautiful words in the English language aren't "I love you" but "it's benign.”
Woody Allen (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.”
Woody Allen (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.. There are great truths to tell, if we had either the courage to announce them or the temper to receive them.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Decay of the Art of Lying, published in The Stolen White Elephant: Etc, Pages 220-221 (1882)
“Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Farewell speech to the Liberal Party (14 June 1984)
“It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.”
James A. Michener (1907–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source