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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. – Vladimir Kramnik

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. – Roger Penrose

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles. – Pamela Anderson

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is a role and function for beauty in our time. – Tadao Ando

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. – Edward James Olmos

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave. – Giuseppe Garibaldi

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. – Marguerite Young

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania. – Sharon Stone

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. – Murray Kempton

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. – Eugene Ionesco

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits. – Andrew Weil

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth. – June Jordan

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable. – Tom Ford

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. – George Edward Moore

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. – William Shenstone

Power and beauty come from a very deep place. – Brooke Burke

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness. – Ossie Davis