Top 1200 Ugly Duckling Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
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.
Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.
You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.
Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.
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.
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.
I was fat and ugly and never 'wanted to hook up - for a gay guy that's unheard of. I was like a monk or a priest.
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.
I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
I was used to being the 'ugly girl' in school. I thought that maybe modeling would make my confidence better.
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.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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 were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.
There’s nothing here,” Carter said. “What do you want?” I asked. “We’ve got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
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.
It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
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
What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces.
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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.
When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?
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.
I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.
An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.
Tammy Faye said, "I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad."
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary.
Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad.
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
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.
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.
Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.
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.
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
I think you can be conservative and fight for what you believe in without being mean-spirited or bash people or be ugly about it.
It is the adage of any creative thing; it looks terrible, it is an ugly baby, until the very last second.
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
It takes courage to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that you're ugly, or dirty, or a terrorist.
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
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.
