Pretty Quotes - page 4

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. (Margaret Thatcher)
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. View quote
Joseph Conrad
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great. View quote
James D. Watson
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.) View quote
Ned Vizzini
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse. View quote
Ranulph Fiennes
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status. View quote
Sophia Bush
I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them. View quote
Spencer Johnson
The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies. View quote
Harlan Coben
Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job. (Shawn Ashmore)
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. View quote
George Jean Nathan
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter. View quote
Julie Garwood
Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea. View quote
Caprice Crane
I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl. View quote
Christina Ricci
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Of two evils choose the prettier. View quote
Carolyn Wells
My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. View quote
Suzanne Vega
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. (Eric Temple Bell)
I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight. View quote
Linda McCartney
But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty. View quote
Amy Sedaris
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. View quote
Eli Wallach
This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything. View quote
Renny Harlin
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