A Quote by Emilie Loring

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

Emilie Loring

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Emilie Loring
American - Novelist
1864 - March 13, 1951

There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

Elizabeth Hawes

My hope and my intention was that people would experience the tragedy of what Chernobyl was in every regard: a scientific tragedy, a political tragedy, an emotional and personal tragedy, all of that.

Craig Mazin

Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

Mike Donehey

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

Deepak Chopra

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Fashion is really funny because it's something that should be subjective, but there are clear things that are chic or not chic. There are all these rules, but if the right person breaks a rule, then it becomes a trend.

Erin Foster

Clothing has a great deal to do with the attitudes and energy that others direct towards you. I favor the chic, and tend to avoid the trendy. I think that it's good to be chic when possible because it is more inaccessible.

Frederick Lenz

I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.

Kanye West

I'm not chic, I could never be chic.

Sid Vicious

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

Jerry Bridges

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'

Gretchen Rubin

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

Tammy Faye Bakker

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Nile Rodgers

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

Carine Roitfeld

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