color quotes

• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. (John Locke) [take/color/character]
• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. (Edmund Burke) [give/reality/color/mankind]
• If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart. (Thomas Carlyle) [intellect/talent/color]
• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. (Thomas Carlyle) [intellect/talent/color]
• White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [color/thing/god]
• The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [/color/virtue/avoidance]
• When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men. (Frantz Fanon) [philosophy/color/philosophy/men]
• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [courage/quality/color]
• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. (William Hazlitt) [look/color/health/beauty]
• A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [soldier/horse/color]
• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [color/content/time]
• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. (John Locke) [take/color/character]
• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [color/mind]
• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. (James Lowell) [faith/color/experience]
• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. (Claude Monet) [color/joy/day/death]
• The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. (John Ruskin) [love/color]
• I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. (George Bernard Shaw) [design/color/beauty/art]
• We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. (Booker T. Washington) [men/color]
• Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. (Oscar Wilde) [color/form/speak]
• If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels. (Charlize Theron) [life/needs/color/high]
• Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. (Tori Amos) [right/color/shame]
• I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors - the rainbow contains every color. And it's the shade that defines the light. (Tori Amos) [color/light]
• We're all sisters and brothers. So like color and those issues now, if we dealt with it much, much less, the world would be much more beautiful. (Bai Ling) [color/more]
• We are not women of color. I am a woman with skin of color. I am not an ethnicity, but a skin tone. That's why my book covers everything from a blond and blue-eyed Brazilian to a woman from the Philippines who may be as dark as I am. ( Iman) [women/color/color]
• I'm shooting 42.4 percent now. My character starts to date Kenya, a successful beautiful and fine woman of 2005 who puts the mandate out that she doesn't want to cross the color line, she doesn't want to date across the racial line. (Blair Underwood) [character/color]
• Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them. (Denis Leary) [color]
• Music and movement are both expressions of the same basic human energy. They are like paints used to color the screen. (Donnie Yen) [music/human/color]
• Anytime you do something Latino, yeah, I love the color, the spice. (Esai Morales) [love/color]
• If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. (Johnny Depp) [question/color]
• People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood. (Omar Epps) [people/color/brotherhood]
• “Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me” (Will Smith) [joy/wings/color]

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