Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
— Al-Ghazali
Cheering Ugly People quotations
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.
I think there is beauty in everything.
What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.
People would see a lot of times fighting as a ugly thing, as a thing that denigrates the human being. In reality, you see fighting on everything... Everything's fighting. Doesn't matter what it is. You wake up in the morning, to get out of bed is a fight, believe it. So, fighting is actually the best thing a man can have in his soul.
You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
I find that white people in general, including white liberals and even revolutionaries, are most inclined to call you a racist when they don't want to confront the ugly realities that their racism has created. In their eyes, when you attempt to address those realities from your perspective you become a racist.
I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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.
Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.
Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me.
And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.
It is easy to love friends and sweethearts.
This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The highest love doesn't see goodness or badness at all. One should even love warmongers, bad food producers and priests.
Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.
There were no ugly people in Ethiopia
Alcohol does not make ugly people attractive. It makes it so you could care less that they're ugly.
If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life.
When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.
I have no clue [why people say I'm insane].
Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care.
People who are obsessed are raw with God;
they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures. Obsessed people don't put it on for God; He is their safe place, where they can be at peace.
Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun.
Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.
Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know.
Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.