Saddening Beauty Quotes

#1. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening
I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.

Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

#2. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been positioning himself to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Hillary once developed a program to deliver rural healthcare, while de Blasio once dropped a groundhog on its head.

Jimmy Fallon

#3. In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Brad Henry

#4. I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

Mal Peet

#5. Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

John Shelby Spong

#6. I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

Bella Thorne

#7. I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Mark Leyner

#8. The man gave her an eyegasm every time she glanced at him.

Terri L. Austin

#9. Brenna Kelly, meet Alice Price-Healy. Grandma, meet Breanna. No one is shooting, stabbing or immolating anyone in this hotel room."
"Please," added Dominic. "I have to sleep here."
"HAIL!" Rejoiced the mice. "HAIL THE LACK OF STABBING, SHOOTING AND FLAME!

Seanan McGuire

#10. I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

John Anderson

#11. Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

Jim Rohn

#12. I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

Samuel Rutherford

#13. Powell to say: " 'I wish I was blacker. I'd like to be as black as you are, Miles.'"(3)

Peter Pullman

#14. Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

Seth Godin

#15. Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules ... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Brian Greene

#16. Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

John G. Miller