Refine Quotes

99 Refine quotes by 87 unique authors

When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual… — Caroline Myss
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but… — Marvin Gaye
Art and education may refine the taste, but they cannot purify the heart and regenerate the individual. His (Christ’s) words were simple yet profound. And they shook… — Billy Graham
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's. — William Matthews
Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you. — Joel Osteen
We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and… — Isaac Rosenberg
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being… — Eliza Farnham
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and… — James Ellroy
Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we… — Eliza R. Snow
No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own… — Lapo Elkann
With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine,… — Unknown Author
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. — Alvar Aalto
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And… — Ryan Stiles
It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression… — Bob Mould
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over… — Jerry Harrison
Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there. — Jerry Harrison
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel. — Liz Curtis Higgs
Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God.… — Rachel Held Evans
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. — Leigh Hunt
You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift
Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence, hone your dreams,… — Rob Brezsny
Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world. — Dan Millman
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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