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Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. -- Philip Kitcher
I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar. -- Danilo Kis
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. -- Scott Hamilton
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. -- Champfleury
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. -- Edmund Burke
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The more refined one is, the more unhappy. -- Anton Chekhov
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. -- D. H. Lawrence
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. -- Robert Delaunay
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. -- Gaston Bachelard
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. -- Laurence Sterne
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. -- Arthur Balfour
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. -- Della Reese
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. -- James Joyce
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. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Paul Watson
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. -- Bertha von Suttner
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. -- Andy Stanley
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. -- Morihei Ueshiba
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. -- Jade Jagger
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. -- John C. Maxwell
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. -- Al Sharpton
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. -- Charles Horton Cooley
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. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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. -- John Sununu
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. -- Mackenzie Davis
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. -- Dean Karnazes
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. -- Evelyn Glennie
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. -- George Saunders
Adversity refined as like gold. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity refined us like gold. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All recurring joy is pain refined. -- Amy Lowell
Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined. -- Susanna Centlivre
A man of refined taste and judgment. -- Horace
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. -- Isobelle Carmody
Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism. -- Dan Quayle
May be refined, and join the angelic train. -- Phillis Wheatley
Success is a refined study of the obvious -- Jim Rohn
A refined sort of butcher, a woman is. -- John Osborne
We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them. -- Max Lucado
In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... -- Nikolai Gogol
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity. -- William Wordsworth
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. -- William Empson
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. -- Lord Chesterfield
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp. -- Beatrice Wood
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. -- Paul Tournier
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind. -- Stevie Smith
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined. -- Kathleen Tessaro
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. -- Mark Twain
It's impossible to be refined when we don't know how to listen. -- Samael Aun Weor
She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot -- Mark Twain
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox. -- I. L. Peretz
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. -- Georg Buchner
The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar. -- George Hamilton
An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. -- Jonathan Swift
Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous. -- Josh Hutcherson
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. -- George Canning
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women. -- William E. Gladstone
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. -- Joseph Sobran
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. -- Suzanne Curchod
A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged. -- Nelson Mandela
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. -- Jonathan Edwards
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. -- Frederick William Robertson
Life does not hand refined golds to us but golds hidden under the garment of the earth -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous! -- Frederick Franck
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being. -- Andrew Weil
We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context. -- Anthony Liccione
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. -- John Evelyn
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. -- John Bevere
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. -- Madame de Stael
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. -- Sarah J. Buckley
He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined... -- Walter Pater
In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients. -- Deepak Chopra
Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. -- Terry Orlick
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. -- Brigham Young
Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. -- Leonard Cohen
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. -- Edmundo Desnoes
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way. -- Misty Copeland
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. -- Samuel Johnson
For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental. -- David Gilmour
The slower frequencies are dropping away to be replaced by the faster, higher, more refined frequencies that are part of the Energetic Evolution. -- Elaine Seiler
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat. -- Harry Mulisch
I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter. -- William Albert Allard
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. -- Thomas Huxley
I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter -- William Albert Allard
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians. -- Christopher Wren
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. -- Charles Caleb Colton
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. -- Thomas Mann
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. -- Ian Mcewan
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government. -- Edward Abbey
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined. -- Lars Leksell
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. -- Neel Burton
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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. -- Thomas Mann
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. -- Pablo Picasso
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. -- Randy Johnson
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. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
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. -- Vivienne Westwood
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. -- James F. Cooper
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. -- Garry Kasparov
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. -- Mooji
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. -- Neil L. Andersen
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. -- Ellen Glasgow

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