Refined Quotes

210 Refined quotes by 186 unique authors

Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels… — Pope Pius XII
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. — William Empson
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products… — Juan Goytisolo
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined. — Unknown Author
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. — George Canning
Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with… — Rich Mullins
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed… — Alice James
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out… — Randy Johnson
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly… — Boyd K. Packer
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox. — Unknown Author
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… — David Brin
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for… — P T Barnum
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity. — William Wordsworth
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities… — Isabella Beeton
Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen… — Mae West
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary… — John Herschel
But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether… — Saadat Hasan Manto
I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly… — Unknown Author

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