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Quotes About Smoothing

The most hopeless idleness is that most smoothed with excellent plans.
~ Walter Bagehot
After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.
~ Ellie Goulding
Sensing the danger, we pull back as a church and refuse to deal with the evidence at all. Instead of moving ahead, smoothing the way and making the road safe, we have left the boulders in place and not put up guard rails. Thus the way remains dangerous.
~ Alden Thompson
Well, there's this culture on Instagram where everyone uses filters and lighting, or people smooth their skin out. It's this weird thing. We all know it's not real and we all complain about it, yet we all do it.
~ Nina Nesbitt
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
~ Emily Oster
How sweetly did they float upon the wingsOf silence, through the empty-vaulted night,At every fall smoothing the raven downOf darkness till it smil'd!
~ John Milton
What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Minty Fresh made a motion with his hands of leveling, as if he were smoothing an imaginary tablecloth of calm over a counter constructed of contemporary freak-out.
~ Christopher Moore
Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.
~ Petr Skrabanek