Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement. — Arthur Gray Copy Share Image
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams 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
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
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