The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical,… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin;… — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax,… — Sunni Brown Copy Share Image
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight… — Iain Glen Copy Share Image
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is… — Alice James Copy Share Image
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated.… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
