The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces.
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
It is the adage of any creative thing; it looks terrible, it is an ugly baby, until the very last second.
When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.
I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.
The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
At base, the ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one's nation, of one's ideology, of one's morality, of one's values.
It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.
When we do get to the point where things aren't good, we know how to smarten up and fix it before it gets ugly.
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.
I was used to being the 'ugly girl' in school. I thought that maybe modeling would make my confidence better.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
There’s nothing here,” Carter said. “What do you want?” I asked. “We’ve got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
When I'm looking for something, I say, 'Man that's ugly - nobody would want to rock that.' Then I grab it and I put it on.
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else
You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.
After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.
I really don't have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that's fine. To me, that's beautiful.
And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.
It takes courage to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that you're ugly, or dirty, or a terrorist.
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
The funny thing about nationalism is that there are two sides to it. Some parts of it are beautiful, but there's an ugly side as well.
I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary.
I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.
Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.
I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.
An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.
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