Regal Beauty Quotes

#1. I have never heard any of your lectures, but from what I can learn I should say that for people who like the kind of lectures you deliver, they are just the kind of lectures such people like. Yours respectfully, O. Abe.

Artemus Ward

#2. We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The winner of the first point is the loser of the last.

Michael Stean

#4. Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of all nations was amazingly religious and apocalyptic - ghosts and visions, crucifixions and sacrifice, crusaders and holy warriors.

Philip Jenkins

#5. Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

John Wanamaker

#6. How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

H. Rider Haggard

#7. For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

Rachel Kushner

#8. I remember thinking that moms were not allowed to be sad, that surely women grew out of sadness by the time they had children.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#9. Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss.

Ian Stewart

#10. My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them.

Stephen Merchant

#11. It is within you that the divine lives.

Joseph Campbell

#12. At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#13. It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

Jonathan Stroud

#14. A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

Margaret Deland

#15. Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object.

Inge Morath

#16. It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

Jean Ingelow