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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
It's like an effort is being made to taint my relationship with Sanjay and make it ugly. When it's clean, pure and based on trust.
Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
All my music is driven by an urge to connect with people, to share with them in the experience of being human - the good, the bad, and the ugly!
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
I have no clue [why people say I'm insane]. Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care.
As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.
They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge
Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.
Jake Robert's wife is real ugly, but according to him that's nothing a six pack and a light switch can't fix.
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.
I realized I am living an amazing, gorgeous, large life. I want to share this, and that includes the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.
It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don't. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.
Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.
But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.
Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?
It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.
It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice.
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.
If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.
When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.
Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism's unrelenting current of anti-Americanism.
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
I've had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.
I love the beige, tan, stucco world where the sun bleaches things out to the point that it can look somewhat ugly.
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.
There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.
