Best 59 quotes in «elegant quotes» category

Rose is not the prettiest flower, neither water lily or petunia nor magnolia! An elegant soul is the prettiest flower on earth!

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

One must learn to be simple, anyone can manage to be complex.

I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use. I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out. "I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. I see her father, aged and bent, but otherwise restored, and faithful to all men in his healing office, and at peace. I see the good old man, so long their friend, in ten years' time enriching them with all he has, and passing tranquilly to his reward. "I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both. "I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine. I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him, foremost of just judges and honoured men, brining a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place---then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement---and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and faltering voice. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

I told a friend of mine that my ambition was now to design my lifestyle around food. He made funny remarks about it and laughed it off. But it is what I'm sincerely aiming for.

It was inelegant, but what was not when taking a hostage?

I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn’t picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network.

Patience's mental imprecations reached new heights. Mrs. Chadwick had not lied- Vane Cynster was the very epitome of an elegant gentleman. His hair, burnished chestnut several shades darker than her own, glowed softly in the candlelight, wave upon elegant wave sitting perfectly about his head. Even across the room, the strength of his features registered; clear-cut, hard-edged, forehead, nose, jaw, and cheeks appeared sculpted out of rock. Only his lips, long and thin with just a hint of humor to relieve their austerity, and the innate intelligence and, yes, wickedness, that lit his grey eyes, gave any hint of mere mortal personality- all else, including, Patience grudgingly acknowledged, his long, lean body, belonged to a god.

... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician’s art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it’s fascinating, it’s fun, and it’s free!

Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.

To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!

Theory is relevant to you because it shows you a new, simpler, and more elegant side of computers, which we normally consider to be complicated machines. The best computer designs and applications are conceived with elegance in mind. A theoretical course can heighten your aesthetic sense and help you build more beautiful systems.

The best wisdom looks, sounds, and feels like poetry. Wisdom is elegant.

This is God's beauty! The Elegant nature of Esther, The Meek nature of Moses, The Pius nature of Paul, The Passionate nature of Peter, The Just nature of Jesus and then The wise nature of you!

We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

Women in Amman are all top notch, in fact. Make-up is an everyday necessity and the hair is always blow-dried or curled. Even the women who wear headscarves are stylish.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

You are the best of our people, but you are not yet good enough.

You can shout through your art, through your clothes, through your ideas, through your silence, through your stance! Instead of shouting through your mouth, choose the above elegant ways of shouting!

Cats are always elegant.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

No elegant woman follows fashion slavishly.

There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.

Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner.

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

An elegant behavior, an elegant look, an elegant word, an elegant posture, an elegant idea, they are all moonlight, mysterious and magical, calming and peaceful!