Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
If you want to change from sex towards love, try to understand your sexuality. Watch it, watch the mechanicalness of it. See… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I… — Doseone Copy Share Image
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined… — David Walker Copy Share Image
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and… — William Jones Copy Share Image
People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary.… — Nadia Giosia Copy Share Image
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
You're looking good today Bret. Very hot... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. — George Canning Copy Share Image
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
