It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John Ruskin

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
James Cagney

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
Paris Hilton

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.
Christopher Walken

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
Richard Pryor

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
Jennifer Aniston

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.
Nancy Reagan

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

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.
Erich Fromm

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
Alain de Botton

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.
Mercedes McCambridge