Quotes About Beauty Kills

#1. It's really adorable." "That sounds adorable.

Rory Wilde

#2. The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

#3. Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Shams Tabrizi

#4. American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

Thomas Sowell

#5. Man ain't happy till he kills everything in his path and cuts down everything that grows. He sees something wild and beautiful and wants to hold it down and stab it, punish it 'cause it's wild. Beauty draws him to it, and then he kills it.

Neil Gaiman

#6. This was not a beauty that warmed one. It cut, like a weapon. There was no nuance of gentleness in her, no shading of care, but fair she was, as is the flight of an arrow before it kills.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#7. I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

Richard Harris

#8. Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.

Nigel Tomm

#9. you clever apes, smart enough to destroy everything around you, never smart enough to understand what it is you are losing in the process . . .

Terry Pratchett

#10. Those who exclaim that "animals are not people" tend to forget that, while true, it is equally true that people are animals. To minimize the complexity of animal behavior without doing the same for human behavior erects an artificial barrier.

Frans De Waal

#11. Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

William Blake

#12. The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

Jodi Picoult

#13. My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

Robert Metcalfe

#14. Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.

Malcolm Muggeridge