Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever… — Thomas Mann 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
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. — Terry Orlick 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
There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined. — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S.… — Edward Abbey 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
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
I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day… — Steve Young 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
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
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight… — C. A. Bartol 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
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and… — Charles William Eliot 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
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people…Farmers are not… — Adelle Davis Copy Share Image
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and… — Richard Pascale 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
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
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
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
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image