#polis

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#good #hope #hyped #i #i hope that

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#caricatures #good #mosaic #nothing #polished

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#care #company #decisions #health #health care

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#big #by the time #campaign #debate #debates

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friction #gem #man #nor #perfected

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#i #i think #lifted #me #might

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#antagonist #courage #everything #keen #manner

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#enclose #equal #equal right #formations #great

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.' ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#cute #fabulous #go #history #human

Competing helps me to polish my shape. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#helps #me #polish #shape