Quotes About Refinement

The Sieves of time, filter out the fakes from the real.Don't look back for them, they were filtered out for your refinement.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.

I cannot bear clumsy women who rise from a chair as if they are activated by wires.

A taste for better stuff is cultivated only through experience.

Deja que la refinación y la mejora de tu propia vida te mantenga tan ocupado que tengas poco tiempo para criticar a otros. H. JACKSON BROWN, JR., ESCRITOR

Subtlety is a lost art. - Ada

Design is sloppy because a good solution is often only subtly different from a poor one.

Complex organs evolve by small steps for the same reason that a watchmaker does not use a sledgehammer and a surgeon does not use a meat cleaver.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

There is always room for improvement, you know—it's the biggest room in the house." —Louise Heath Leber

He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and he allowed access only to the most highly refined sensations, to crises of faith and to violent disorders of the senses.

Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

It was here that she was indeed Woman, for here she gave rein to her ardent and cruel temperament. She was living, more refined and savage, more execrable and exquisite. She more energetically awakened the dulled senses of man, more surely bewitched and subdued his power of will, with the charm of a tall venereal flower, on sacrilegious beds, in impious hothouses.

The fact is that ,pain being one of the consequences of education,in that it grows greater and sharper with the growth of ideas ,it follows that the more we try to polish the minds and refine the nervous system of the under-privileged , the more we shall be developing in their hearts the atrociously active germs of hatred and moral suffering.

Con el cultivo de la inteligencia vienen los gustos costosos

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

Egil har altså ikke sugd det fra eget bryst, men, sier han, vi må ta i betraktning at den tiden er over. I dag er det ganske lite som kan suges helt fra eget bryst. Det er ikke mulig lenger. Folk har tenkt tankene før. Vår oppgave blir å raffinere dem.

True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.