Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was… — Della Reese Copy Share Image
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,’ Madame added, turning her back on them. ‘And therefore, nothing more refined.” — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has,… — Yuja Wang Copy Share Image
Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but… — Richard Armour 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
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
...Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . .… — Mae West Copy Share Image
The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries… — Hans Hofmann 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
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
I think one of the most important lessons that I've learned is to put your head down and work. Don't look at… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have… — Richard Fisch Copy Share Image
All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself… — Ellen G. White 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
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
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim 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
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