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
Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or… — Evelyn Glennie 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
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
The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day -… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them… — Thomas Kuhn 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
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
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer 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
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. — George Canning 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
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All… — Benjamin Haydon 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 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
Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow.… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. — Sarah J. Buckley Copy Share Image
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim… — James F. Cooper 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
The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health… — David Reuben Copy Share Image
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on… — T. D. Jakes 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 difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne 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
Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at… — Edward McKendree Bounds 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
True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet… — Joni Eareckson Tada 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
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just… — Agnes Varda 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
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
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