Ugly Quotes - page 7

Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier. (Anton Chekhov)
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. View quote
Erich Fromm
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand; Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed. View quote
Judith Martin
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth. View quote
James Branch Cabell
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. View quote
Ned Rorem
Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc... It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. View quote
Asger Jorn
Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard. View quote
Rasmus Lerdorf
Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly. View quote
Edward Abbey
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. (Edward Abbey)
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens. View quote
Dennis Miller
To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
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. (Death) View quote
Markus Zusak
It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more. View quote
Matt Groening
Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks. View quote
Mary Astor
I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty. View quote
Mindy Kaling
We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. View quote
Rick Riordan
Despicable creatures, vultures: without a doubt the most disgusting birds ever. I suppose they served their purpose, but did they have to be so greasy and ugly? Couldn't we have cute fuzzy rabbits that cleaned up roadkill instead? View quote
Rick Riordan
There's nothing here,” Carter said. "What do you want?” I asked. "We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue. (Rick Riordan)
Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your... View quote
Rick Riordan
Piper!” Frank yelled. "Counter those empousai! We need some chaos.” "Thought you'd never ask.” She started catcalling at the female demons: "Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back! View quote
Rick Riordan
Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces. View quote
Rick Riordan
Finally I just had to get out. Because when that fantasy seeps into the reality, she just becomes an incredibly ugly person. She feels she can distort anything that occurs for whatever purpose she wants. Whatever she feels, that's what is, as far as she's concerned. View quote
Samuel R. Delany