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
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville 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
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found… — Theodore William Richards Copy Share Image
Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin;… — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice 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
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight… — Iain Glen 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
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Trials come. Tribulation comes. Fires of refinement come. The purpose of refinement is to bring to light the things hidden in darkness… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
“Out of the fires of refinement, come the praise of His magnificence, the brilliance of His glory, and the honor of His… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the… — Wassily Kandinsky 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
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes… — Rick Castro Copy Share Image
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality… — Catherine Malandrino Copy Share Image
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to… — Steve Maraboli 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
Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest… — Norma Kamali Copy Share Image
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical… — Abdu'l-Bahá 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
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is… — H. L. Hunt Copy Share Image
dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art… — Twyla Tharp 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
“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
