Top 1200 Ugly Duckling Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
Liberals go straight to ugly racist stereotypes when attacking conservative blacks, calling them oversexualized, stupid and/or incompetent.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.
I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'.
Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.
I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.
Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
What am I doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware of something ugly or evil or stupid.
So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.
Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
While America may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.
I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.
Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.
Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.
I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.
In the old days I never thought about money - but then, of course, the clothes were so ugly in the '80s there was nothing I wanted.
The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.
There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.
If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.
The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home.
I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.
Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your...
Yeah, it’s me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. ‘Cause right now, I’m pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick)
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.
I used to look at the outfits that I wore when I was 11, and I was like, 'That's really ugly.' I mean, I just thought I was the coolest kid ever and actually wasn't.
I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful.
I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
Basic training is horrible. It's dirty, and it's ugly. But you learn it's not just about you. It makes you part of a team, which helps you to survive.
No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!
People say to me, 'Why do you do these ugly parts?' And it's because at the end of the day, I'm an actress, and I crave the dark and the light within one job.
Theres 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.
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
