Understatedly Elegant Quotes & Sayings

We are stronger for the people who leave us, you know? Being able to live without them just shows how much better we are. No one can hold us back but ourselves, and I, for one, am proud of the person I am. — Toni Aleo

I keep my beauty regimen as natural as possible. I wash my face four times a day. In the beginning of the day, I use an exfoliating cleanser made of besan, turmeric and sandalwood. I drink lots of water and avoid oily food. I use only The Body Shop products on my face, as they use the least amount of chemicals. — Tena Desae

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK. — Tana French

I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.' — Donald Trump

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying. — Paul Cezanne

After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down. — Linda Sunshine

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea. — E. E. Cummings

Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding. — Shannon Hale

Over the past seventy years the various identity struggles have to some degree remediated the great wrongs that have been done to workers, people of color, Indigenous Peoples, women, gays and lesbians, and the disabled, while helping to humanize our society overall. But they have also had a shadow side in the sense that they have encouraged us to think of ourselves more as determined than as self-determining, more as victims of 'isms' (racism, sexism, capitalism, ableism) than as human beings who have the power of choice. For our own survival we must assume individual and collective responsibility for creating a new nation - one that is loved rather than feared and one that does not have to bribe and bully other nations to win support. — Grace Lee Boggs

The mixed woods of Germany were the sort that deserved a good savoring - no, a savouring, with a British u in there for the sake of decadence, as colours are somehow more vibrant to me than mere colors. — Kevin Hearne

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready ... we'll just have to see. — Stone Gossard