Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role… — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks,… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
