Captive Beauty Quotes

#1. 'Your beauty was the first that won the place, And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart, Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case, Unkindly met with rigour for desert; - Yet not the less your servant shall abide, In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.' WILLIAM FOWLER.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#2. ... Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

Jasper Fforde

#3. Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

Henri Nouwen

#4. For beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

John Milton

#5. By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

Emile Durkheim

#6. What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

Mos Def

#7. Child molesters must all think they've got huge dicks.

Anthony Jeselnik

#8. They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask

Cormac McCarthy

#9. Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

John Milton

#10. Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.

Wade Clark Mackey

#11. Life is too short to turn it into a court

Yasser Kashef

#12. It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

David Draiman

#13. What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all palisades, all fences, within which she is held captive!

Alexander Herzen

#14. As a wife you don't question. By doing as you're told, you're relieved of the responsibility of decisions.[...]It's a blessing. Don't you agree?

Aleatha Romig

#15. It taught me that ... there can be no true humility and no true compassion where there is no courage.

Whittaker Chambers

#16. In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.

Neil Clark Warren

#17. There are no part-time Christians.

Pope Francis

#18. All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

Amelia Barr

#19. Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#20. Creating without claiming. Doing without taking credit. Guiding without interfering. This is primal virtue.

Lao-Tzu