Home / Quotes / Quote by Luisa Capetillo

Quote by Luisa Capetillo

“Useful hands are preferable to ones that are merely beautiful”

Quote by Luisa Capetillo

Book:A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out / Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer

Work

A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out / Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Luisa Capetillo

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Luisa Capetillo. more

You May Also Like

“They say -- everyone says I'm beautiful!' He managed to preserve his countenance, but his lips twitched slightly. 'Yes, of course,' he replied. 'It's well known that all heiresses are beautiful!”

Beauty Heiresses

Book:The Nonesuch

Source: The Nonesuch

“Perhaps that was how it always was--we tended to focus upon the outward appearances of people and miss the true beauty of their character as a result.”

Inspirational Beauty

Book:Ensnared

Source: Ensnared

“In all honestly, I love this living from day to day. It is the closest one can have to tranquility and peace of mind, it is like the whole hike was nothing but a several day long meditation. A meditational trip where one visits several Inca ruins and ends up contemplating the meaning behind beauty. No wonder, given the surroundings that this path offers.”

Beauty Meditation Peace Of Mind Tranquility Peru Inca Ruins

Book:Peruvian Days

Source: Peruvian Days

“The virus altered the eye of the beholder. That this change came at the expense of the beheld suggests that beauty in nature does not necessarily bespeak health, nor necessarily redound to the benefit of the beautiful.”

Beauty Perception Botany

Book:The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“Beauty can only really be measured in relation to The Eternal”

Beauty Eternal Eternity

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it. An live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here! Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty—are you aware of that, you who are laughing?—it would turn into boorishness, you couldn’t invent the nail! . . . I will not yield!”

Book:Demons

Source: Demons

“Her feelings for Jeremy were like Schrodinger’s Crush. As long as she didn’t open the box, their relationship existed in a state of quantum superposition: both possible and impossible at the same time.”

Love Funny Romance Science Schrodinger S Cat

Book:Remedial Rocket Science

Source: Remedial Rocket Science

“Views across the rugged Cairngorms and the distant grey band of the North Sea respectively. The slate grey ocean sparkled silver where the sun touched it's crested waves, and they could juct make out the billowing white sails of various sailing vessels coming to and from the port of Aberdeen”

Nature Beauty Scotland Aberdeen

Book:The Stone of Destiny

Source: The Stone of Destiny

“Beauty arrests our attention to look upward. It reminds us that there are things in life, such as love and the divine, that we long for so ardently we know---even if we only know it for a fleeting moment---that our yearnings are far deeper than our eyes can see. And that's what faith is, I think." William situated his elbow against the ground and propped his fist against his cheek. "That's really profound." "Thank you," Eliza smiled. "That's why I like to include bluebirds in my paintings. They're a reminder that while beauty may be fickle in its coming and going, there's a permanence in the impression it leaves on our hearts. There are roots growing within us that sustain its wings. And maybe that, really, makes beauty the greatest witness to glory there is.”

Faith Beauty Bluebirds

Book:Paint and Nectar

Source: Paint and Nectar

“You thought you could create more indigo, and I understand why you wished it, Eliza, for indigo is the color of bluebirds, the color of the twilight sky. Newton insisted it be added to the colors of the rainbow, and once upon a time, its cousin true blue was such a rare pigment, its price rivaled gold. People have fought wars over indigo crops and used it to bolster and brag of their wealth. Why? All in an attempt to make beauty lasting.”

Beauty Color Everlasting Rare Indigo

Book:Paint and Nectar

Source: Paint and Nectar