Quotes from the Uglies Triology "By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
-Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds" (Found in the Specials)
The beauty of the world... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (Found in the Pretties)
"When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil."
-Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching (Found in the Specials)
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless."
- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, I (Found in the Pretties)
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
-Roy Disney
"Is it not good to make a society full of beautiful people?"
-Yang Yuan quoted in the New York Times (Uglies)
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
-Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, "Of beauty" (Uglies)
"Beauty is that Medusa's head
Which men go armed to seek and sever.
It is most deadly when most dead,
And dead will stare and sting forever."
-Archibald MacLeish, "Beauty" (Uglies)
Quotes from the Uglies Triology
"By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
-Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds" (Found in the Specials)
The beauty of the world... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (Found in the Pretties)
"When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil."
-Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching (Found in the Specials)
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless."
- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, I (Found in the Pretties)
"Celebrate everyone's uniqueness."
-Hilary Duff (Found in our Tracker :) )
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
-Roy Disney
"Is it not good to make a society full of beautiful people?"
-Yang Yuan quoted in the New York Times (Uglies)
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
-Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, "Of beauty" (Uglies)
"Beauty is that Medusa's head
Which men go armed to seek and sever.
It is most deadly when most dead,
And dead will stare and sting forever."
-Archibald MacLeish, "Beauty" (Uglies)