Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold?… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from… — Ralph Rucci Copy Share Image
“Refinement. A man who is decorous and mannerly. One who is– (Nora) Boring. (Cat) How so? (Nora) Have you ever been around… — Kinley MacGregor 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
'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 we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom;… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws… — Richard G. Scott 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
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
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
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
No one would say, 'Hey, I think this medicine works, go ahead and use it.' We have testing, we go to the… — Sendhil Mullainathan 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
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of… — Maria Jane McIntosh Copy Share Image
The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making… — Jared Spool 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
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley 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
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty… — Geoffrey Zakarian 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
Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful,… — Charlotte Mary Yonge 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
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of… — Frederick William Faber 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
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and… — James Ellis 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
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower… — Tadashi Shoji Copy Share Image
There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be… — Frederick Lenz 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
