Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande
There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.
He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.
I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.
Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by adding layer upon layer of navigation and features; it's much more difficult to create simple, graceful designs. Paring designs to essential elements while maintaining elegance and functionality requires courage and discipline.
