Refinement Quotes

145 quotes by 127 authors

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening,… — Ralph Rucci
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the… — Elbert Hubbard
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate… — Maria Montessori
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force. — Alex Grey
Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection. — Ferruccio Lamborghini
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. — Iain Glen
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity. — Sigourney Weaver
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement. — Tom Piazza
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a… — Marcus Aurelius
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge… — Henry David Thoreau
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That… — Henry Ward Beecher
The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief. — William Hazlitt
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Itâ€™s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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