In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied… — William James Copy Share Image
Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality. — Maria Young Dougall Copy Share Image
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is… — Alice James Copy Share Image
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman.” — Jan Moran Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated.… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation. — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
