Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at… — Denis Parsons Burkitt Copy Share Image
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce,… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
What I do know is that drones are a modern weapon. When used effectively, when taking out ISIS or terrorist leaders, that's… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
