Quotes about Ugly

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Oscar Wilde

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

William Shakespeare

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Ayn Rand

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.

Margaret Cho

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

I really don't know (what happened). ... We didn't get any looks. It was just an ugly quarter.

Greg Adams

If anything, the book shows the good, the bad, the ugly, and then the sad. They're chasing these gold dreams, but what happens when you put too much value in your chain? If you spend all your money on your ring and then you go broke? It's not an advertisement for jewelry.

Minya Oh

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

Sharon Tate

We have a right to know. They ought to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly.

Mark Lanier

April and May are going to be very critical around here. If we continue to see below-average rainfall, things could get ugly.

Victor Murphy

You should be meeting once a week, at least. It's getting ugly. ... You can't get it resolved unless you're meeting constantly face-to-face and trying to get it resolved.

Bob Bell

It was an ugly meeting.

Walter White

I don't mind being the ugly one....I get the dregs!

Nicola Roberts

It was an extremely ugly auction. And that's something nobody wants to see, not the Street and certainly not Treasury, given the amount of borrowing they have to do.

Sadakichi Robbins

She was an ugly little duckling — she wasn't ugly but she was a little duckling with terrible costumes, dirty skates, awkward and no spirals. To see her turn into a rock star in skating... and make a transformation from a duckling into a swan, that was probably the most exciting thing about her.

Frank Carroll

That's probably the best-looking goal he's scored all year. Most of them were ugly as sin.

John Woodring

I feel like, mentally, I rub off on all these guys. Come that last five minutes of the game, we're ugly because we've got that face on us.

Casey Moore

With three negative reports in a row, it's ugly. What we are seeing is two things: it is the storms and a pre-existing condition that came with the end of auto discounting. Part suppliers and their raw materials suppliers benefited from auto sales incentives.

Chris Low

They always say the sign of a good team is winning ugly. The last two games, we've won pretty ugly.

Gary Woods

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Donald Fagen

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

Marie Dressler

You get this argument that burial is big and ugly and corporate and fat and it's the Cadillac. Cremation is hip and new and happening. It's the VW bug with the 'small is beautiful' kind of thing.

Stephen Prothero

Competition is going to rear its ugly head as companies cross over into each other's territory, ... Price has always been the key focus for telecom. It's a commodity business.

Todd Rosenbluth

Until it gets ugly, he's going to continue to take the high road. He can't ignore Lynn Swann, nor is he going to. But for a little while they're going to let Swann talk and see if he makes a misstep. If your opponent is going to make an unforced error, let him do it.

Larry Ceisler

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

Rodney Dangerfield

It got ugly pretty quick.

Sgt. Paul Roderick

She was screaming. She was saying a lot of racist comments. It was pretty ugly.

Jeff Tabala

It was an ugly and painful game to watch.

Dwyane Wade

If I'd known we'd have kept Henry from scoring from the field in the second half I would've liked our chances. We did a good job on him in the second half, but when you don't score everything looks ugly.

Roger Franks

It was ugly. It was a low-scoring, ugly game.

Quentin Richardson

They've got some kids that can stroke it, and they got hot in the second half. They're tough. I'm just glad to get out of here with a win. It was ugly, but I'll take it.

Josh Mills

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

Frederick Locker Lampson

It wasn't pretty with all the turnovers. But with two defenses like that, it's bound to get ugly at times. Give credit to the offenses, too, because they were able to make a few plays and score some points.

Scott Young

Being assimilated into a new culture and environment takes time and if not managed carefully, can turn into an ugly experience.

Gerry Gebel

It's unfortunate but this seems to be the way it's going in Mexico this year. When the international scenario looks good, the domestic picture begins to look ugly, and vice-versa.

Lars Schonander

Sometimes you have to win ugly -- the Pigs are a scrappy team and I was really happy with how the guys stuck it out.

Phil Smyth

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

Beverly Johnson

I'm happy for the team and myself. I'm been on the end of some ugly losses to them.

Curtis Haggins

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Jay Leno

It was really ugly, a real slow-down game. They were not going to let Deon touch the ball, but we were going to keep working it to him. Luckily we started hitting our jumpers in the second half.

George Tachibana

Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.

Alice Hogan

It's an ugly number -- you have a decline in March, you have a downward revision to the prior month.

Christopher Low

It was advantageous for the French and English to promote the idea that everything out of Spain was ugly, cruel and crude because of the Inquisition and blah, blah, blah. The legend persisted for years and years -- centuries -- with this belief that all the Spanish were barbarians.

Donald Dietz

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Fra Giovanni Giocondo

All I will say is it's better to win ugly than to lose pretty. It's the mark of a good team that we can adapt and do what we needed to do to win.

Jerry Grant

We're not prepared. It's the ugly truth. If our emergency response failed so badly for a Category 5 hurricane, imagine what would happen if a Category 5 viral storm hit every state.

Shelley Hearne

It's not about style points, certainly not this year. It was ugly but we found a way to win and that's all that counts. We'll take the ugly wins every time.

Buster Brown

You can call this the good, the bad and the ugly.

Steve Neimeth

It's easy for your inner critic to rear its ugly head. We want to punish ourselves.

Lisa Mininni

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 passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Phyllis Mcginley

The scars on a female soldier's face, which someone engraved yesterday with broken glass, may heal. The ugly national scars that opened will no longer be possible to sweep under the rug.

Alex Fishman

In the end, we took the ugly wins and are glad to have survived, ... We still need to improve our serving.

Anita Allen

We're going to fight to the end. We're still in the hunt. We're still believing. It's ugly right now, but it's not over for us.

Deonte Tatum

Debbie made a difference for us today. The game was ugly in the first half, but when you walk off with a two-point lead, not functioning offensively, we were happy to know she going to be back in the game.

Jim Foster

Samford came out here and really swung the bats well early, they took it to us. I was proud of our guys for the well they handled the adversity. We didn't play well. We had some errors early and it was kind of ugly. But we didn't panic; we swung the bats and made some things happen.

Steve Kittrell

It was a good, ugly win. Just having a bunch that didn't have a lot of varsity experience, it was big for these guys to win.

Randy Nolen

We shot it on blue screen, so it was this great big ugly, metal, weird, jerky horse-thing that Brad Pitt had sat on.

Alison Goldfrapp

Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

This is ugly ultimate fighting (we're banning). We want approved ultimate fighting.

Daniel Grimes

It was an ugly win, a tough win, whatever you want to call it. But I'd rather have an ugly win than a beautiful loss.

David A. Bennett

I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.

John Masefield

Both teams were in the 50s. It was an ugly game. My guys play hard. All you can ask is to be in position to win the game, and we were.

Jeff Neely

The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Minna Antrim

Sometimes you win ugly, and I was proud of the way the girls battled back.

Mike Frisk

It wasn't a beautiful win, but it wasn't an ugly win. We're having trouble offensively with our youth, and because of that, we have to play great defense. Today we did.

Dan Roiger

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin

We have had longtime quilters come in to volunteer their time, but because the quilts are so ugly they just could not continue to help.

Louise Hall

I guess that's where people think I'm too tough on them, because I wasn't impressed. I don't care what the score says. To me, that was an ugly win.

Jocelyn Duke

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

Stellan Skarsgard

Small-business salaries are rising from the dead. That's good news for small business employees, but it may not be great news for the overall economy. Inflation is rearing its ugly head and may soon stifle economic growth.

Michael Alter

You never want to go to that hearing if you don't have to. It's a lot easier to go into spring training when you can avoid that confrontation. That's an ugly part about baseball.

Nick Punto

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

Og Mandino

We didn't represent the game of baseball the way it should be played. It was pretty ugly to say the least.

Charlie Warner

Investors are recognizing the fundamentals are still terrific, ... Profits are sound, the economy is growing. Inflation is not yet rearing its ugly head.

Abby Joseph Cohen

They call this place Stiff & Ugly. I'd love to find one of the locals and find out why.

George Stovall

Apparently said some ugly things to my client. And my client said, 'I think that's unprofessional.'

Joseph Bruno

I thought we played much better than last time. We looked lethargic. We have a lack of depth. We had no momentum. It was kind of ugly from that perspective.

Craig Wilsman

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

I'd say it could be an ugly game if we don't play well. We're looking forward to that. I think our kids have looked forward to that for a long time.

Mike Denault

As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

Rosie Perez

We definitely have to improve or it's going to start getting ugly. This is the time of year when it gets tough. I've been reminding our team to take one game at a time - we have to get a lot better than we are if we are going to do anything this season.

Randy Roland

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Redd Foxx

But, for better or for worse, most of the cases I have been involved in lately are divorce cases that have turned ugly and [the lawyers] feel there is critical information on the computers.

Gary Kessler

We played ugly early, but as the game got along we played a little bit better. We got a lot of players in and everyone saw playing time. We were trying to work on some fundamentals, but it was a good outcome.

Guy Isabelle

It's partisanship rearing its ugly head. It says to me that some people are worried that this governor will be reelected.

J. Lowell Stoltzfus

It was just an ugly day. It looked like a franchise-low everything. We can't be the type of team we want to be playing like this.

Maurice Williams

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx

We had a slow start and made some silly mistakes. Give Belle credit, they were patient and ran their offense. We need the game to be ugly in order to have a chance, unfortunately we got into foul trouble and they made their free throws.

Scott Wince

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

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

Malcolm De Chazal

Just the ugly getting uglier, ... I challenged myself to concentrate hard for a full 60-minute game and I was pleased with that.

Sean Burke

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

John Dos Passos

It was an ugly win, but it was a win. They played admirable, but we know how to win.

Leo Golembiewski

I'd be wary of writing this country off. There are some scary and ugly things about it, but it remains a turbulently, explosively innovative place.

Michael Ignatieff

They're a great team. Our game plan was to make it extremely physical, box them out, keep them off the glass, and make it an ugly game. We didn't execute what we wanted. They were still rebounding well. We knew if we couldn't rebound with them, we'd have a real hard night.

Scott Arnell

You gotta win ugly sometimes. They made a lot of shots and that created some anxiety. But we fought through it. We talked a lot about picking up our intensity. Our defense really picked it up.

Jim Miranda

It was an ugly win. But it goes in the 'win' column. You don't put ugly in the win column, you put wins.

Nyla Milleson

We kind of made it a point -- the coaches did in the meetings. We've got to get ugly goals and start driving the net. I thought we did a lot better job of driving to the net. Everybody did it tonight.

Shean Donovan

Now when people start to put together the pieces, it sure looks like the damage done to the financial markets from deflation around the world and a Fed that's too tight is beginning to rear its ugly head.

Brian Wesbury