"She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through."

-- Aidan Chambers

#Beautiful Quotes #Past Quotes #Sight Quotes

“Taylor clapped three times for attention. "Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss Ohio's easier than making cereal, and Miss Montana's dress is something my blind meemaw would wear to bingo night." - "Beauty Queens”
“Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.”
“It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.”
“If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.”
“We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.”

Source : "Dewhurst in 2007 supported guest worker program ‘for those here today illegally’" by Peggy Fikac, blog.chron.com. June 27, 2012.
“My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.”

Source : 1994 Speech at the Booker Prize award ceremony, 11 Oct.
“Every man is an artist.”
“From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,â€ Joe said quietly. â€œThey were all you, to me. All of them were you.”

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