Quotes about Refined

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. Votes: 3

I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar. Votes: 3

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be. Votes: 3

Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat. Votes: 3

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind. Votes: 3

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. Votes: 1

The more refined one is, the more unhappy. Votes: 1

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. Votes: 1

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. Votes: 1

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. Votes: 1

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. Votes: 1

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Votes: 1

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. Votes: 1

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. Votes: 1

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground. Votes: 1

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. Votes: 1

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. Votes: 1

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. Votes: 1

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity. Votes: 1

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time. Votes: 1

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Votes: 1

I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier. Votes: 1

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. Votes: 1

In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man. Votes: 1

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. Votes: 1

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression. Votes: 1

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. Votes: 1

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years. Votes: 1

I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice. Votes: 1

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined. Votes: 1

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. Votes: 1

Adversity refined as like gold. Votes: 0

Adversity refined us like gold. Votes: 0

All recurring joy is pain refined. Votes: 0

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined. Votes: 0

A man of refined taste and judgment. Votes: 0

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. Votes: 0

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism. Votes: 0

May be refined, and join the angelic train. Votes: 0

Success is a refined study of the obvious Votes: 0

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is. Votes: 0

We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured. Votes: 0

Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them. Votes: 0

In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified. Votes: 0

...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... Votes: 0

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity. Votes: 0

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts. Votes: 0

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. Votes: 0

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. Votes: 0

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain. Votes: 0

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp. Votes: 0

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. Votes: 0

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind. Votes: 0

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined. Votes: 0

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. Votes: 0

It's impossible to be refined when we don't know how to listen. Votes: 0

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot Votes: 0

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. Votes: 0

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox. Votes: 0

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. Votes: 0

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar. Votes: 0

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. Votes: 0

Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous. Votes: 0

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. Votes: 0

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women. Votes: 0

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. Votes: 0

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. Votes: 0

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged. Votes: 0

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. Votes: 0

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. Votes: 0

Life does not hand refined golds to us but golds hidden under the garment of the earth Votes: 0

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. Votes: 0

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous! Votes: 0

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being. Votes: 0

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context. Votes: 0

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. Votes: 0

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. Votes: 0

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. Votes: 0

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. Votes: 0

He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined... Votes: 0

In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified. Votes: 0

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. Votes: 0

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. Votes: 0

Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients. Votes: 0

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold. Votes: 0

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. Votes: 0

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. Votes: 0

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it. Votes: 0

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. Votes: 0

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. Votes: 0

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. Votes: 0

I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way. Votes: 0

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. Votes: 0

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. Votes: 0

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental. Votes: 0

The slower frequencies are dropping away to be replaced by the faster, higher, more refined frequencies that are part of the Energetic Evolution. Votes: 0

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat. Votes: 0

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter. Votes: 0

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low. Votes: 0

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter Votes: 0

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians. Votes: 0

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. Votes: 0

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Votes: 0

How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. Votes: 0

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government. Votes: 0

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined. Votes: 0

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. Votes: 0

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one. Votes: 0

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Votes: 0

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. Votes: 0

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 there. Votes: 0

Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast. Votes: 0

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity. Votes: 0

If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential. Votes: 0

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. Votes: 0

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience. Votes: 0

The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes. Votes: 0

Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened. Votes: 0

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk. Votes: 0

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety. Votes: 0

...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 of admiring. Votes: 0

We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology. Votes: 0

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either. Votes: 0

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 being human. Votes: 0

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 refined, the school. Votes: 0

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 of the baroque. Votes: 0

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex. Votes: 0

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue. Votes: 0

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. Votes: 0

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 to lean upon. Votes: 0

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. Votes: 0

You're looking good today Bret. Very hot... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too deep set to be classically handsome. Votes: 0

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined. Votes: 0

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. Votes: 0

Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through all the gradient shifts. Votes: 0

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations Votes: 0

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long. Votes: 0

On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe. Votes: 0

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever. Votes: 0

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around. Votes: 0

All the expensive cars, clothes, shoes, bags, jewelries, and other accessories can never make one very refined and sophisticated. Refinement and sophistication can only come from a very enlightened mind. Votes: 0

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity. Votes: 0

The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health. Votes: 0

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential. Votes: 0

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts. Votes: 0

We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception. Votes: 0

When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there. Votes: 0

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined. Votes: 0

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup. Votes: 0

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal. Votes: 0

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth. Votes: 0

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry. Votes: 0

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements. Votes: 0

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce. Votes: 0

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. Votes: 0

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined. Votes: 0

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman! Votes: 0

Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful. Votes: 0

Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined. Votes: 0

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. Votes: 0

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for Votes: 0

The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening. Votes: 0

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything. Votes: 0

As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do. Votes: 0

We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence. Votes: 0

Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them. Votes: 0

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined. Votes: 0

Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way. Votes: 0

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish. Votes: 0