#behold

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

Animals are not only beholders of great beauty, but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#animal-totem #animal-wisdom #beauty #beholders #inspiration

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#beholder #both #holder #intoxicating #often

The gods behold all righteous actions. ↗

— Ovid

#behold #gods #righteous

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#assumed #before #behold #conditions #far

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#beauty #beholder #eye #eye of the beholder

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#beholder #heart

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#charity #give #i #i do #lectures

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#am #behold #curious #each #every