Complexions Quotes

#1. The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and to tinge their hair with a yellowish cast, which is seldom found in the Tartar race.

Edward Gibbon

#2. It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

John Milton

#3. In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions

Ilya Prigogine

#4. Girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#5. Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

William Shakespeare

#6. [Act 5, Scene 4, ROSALIND] If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.

William Shakespeare

#7. Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Regrettably, the Aryans who invaded India and Persia intermarried with the local natives they found in these lands, losing their light complexions and blond hair, and with them their rationality and diligence. The civilisations of India and Persia consequently declined.

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not

William Shakespeare

#10. Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

George Eliot

#11. She had one of those tender complexions that after a good cry get all blurred and inflamed, and morbidly alluring

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That ... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

Malcolm X

#13. Please stop using the word "Negro." ... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.

Mary Church Terrell

#14. The disappointment he felt in his daughters sifted down on them like ash, dulling their buttery complexions and choking the lilt out of what should have been girlish voices.

Toni Morrison

#15. May not one man have several voices, Robin, as well as two complexions?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. But in the early 1900s, the medical profession began to promote the health benefits of tanning. Workers were increasingly moving into factories where complexions grew pallid, as the upper classes spent more time outside playing sports.

Anonymous

#18. I look like a hooker."
"A slut," I corrected. "Hookers have pastier complexions."
"The voice of experience, I'm sure.

Martyn V. Halm

#19. Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

Gloria Steinem

#20. I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand.

Chris Eigeman

#21. I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

William Odom

#22. In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

Andrzej Wajda

#23. I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

Fisher Stevens