Top Refined Quotes
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
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
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Frederick William Robertson
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie Smith
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
William Empson
All Refined Quotes
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 
61% of people like this quote
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 
60% of people like this quote
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Frederick William Robertson 
58% of people like this quote
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie Smith 
57% of people like this quote
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
William Empson 
57% of people like this quote
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.
John Shimkus 
56% of people like this quote
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 
56% of people like this quote
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
Emma Willard 
54% of people like this quote
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier 
53% of people like this quote
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