#polished

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#caricatures #good #mosaic #nothing #polished

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

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

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive. ↗

— James Stockdale

#by the time #dead #get #half #into

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#fair #fair share #had #her #here

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#came #first #had #i #like

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#diamonds #pebbles #places #polished #where

I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#angry #back #call #covered #everything

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#compared #ensemble #make #polished #savages

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friction #gem #man #nor #perfected