Ugliness Quotes - page 2

When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality. (Christian D. Larson)
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The light will not shame you, if it shows you your own ugliness, and that ugliness so offends you that you perceive the beauty of the light. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. View quote
Mo Yan
Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness. View quote
Rick Riordan
It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found. View quote
Ted Dekker
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me. View quote
Gerard Butler
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. View quote
Wendell Berry
Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness -Gin Ichimaru. (Tite Kubo)
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. View quote
Douglas Horton
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. View quote
Goldwin Smith
It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. View quote
Lynn Johnston
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing. View quote
Nick Clooney
... [ Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lucy Stone, Martin Luther King Jr. ]... didn't let the ugliness and the obstacles deter them. They didn't just give up and retreat to the comfortable company of like-minded folks, because they understood that this is how democracy operates. It is loud and messy, and it's not particularly warm and fuzzy. View quote
Michelle Obama
To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet. View quote
Thomas Hardy
An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything. View quote
Yukio Mishima
I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness. View quote
Otto Dix
Science as subversion has a long history. ... Davis and Sakharov belong to an old tradition in science that goes all the way back to the rebels Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Priestley in the eighteenth century, to Galileo and Giordano Bruno in the seventeenth and sixteenth. If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children. ... We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice. View quote
Freeman Dyson
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. (Thornton Wilder)
I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse to a great blessing. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. View quote
Serge Gainsbourg
We are as ugly as animals in our fashion, and unless we deal with the ugliness in ourselves, unless we deal with the violence in ourselves, the brutality in ourselves, and find some way to sublimate it, just to use Freud's term, into something slightly higher, we're never going to get anywhere with anything. View quote
Norman Mailer
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that's being dead. View quote
Elie Wiesel