Pied Beauty Quotes

#1. [T]he pied beauty of humanity should not be carved into acceptable and unacceptable based on things that simply make us who we are.

Andrew Sullivan

#2. Glory be to God for dappled things.
("Pied Beauty")

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#3. I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

Katharine Hayhoe

#4. TURNING YOUR MIND toward the dharma does not bring security or confirmation. Turning your mind toward the dharma does not bring any ground to stand on. In fact, when your mind turns toward the dharma, you fearlessly acknowledge impermanence and change and begin to get the knack of hopelessness.

Pema Chodron

#5. Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?

Don DeLillo

#6. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.

James Montgomery

#7. The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.

John French Sloan

#8. She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

George W. Bush

#10. The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

Leland Stanford

#11. All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

A.R. Rahman

#12. Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

A.A. Milne

#13. You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free
but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Franz Grillparzer

#14. People think happiness will simply fall into their laps. You have to aspire to it. And sometimes you have to seize it when it's kicking and screaming.

Kresley Cole

#15. Liam made a low whistling sound through the device in
Zane's ear. Little touch and go there, lads. Who do I shoot
first if things go to hell?

Abigail Roux

#16. Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

John Milton

#17. I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Cecelia Ahern